Текст песни The Good Ship Kangaroo - Foster , Allen

Once I was a waiting man
That lived at home with ease
Now I am a mariner
That ploughs the angry seas
I always loves seafaring life
I bid me love adieu
I shipped as a steward and cooking boy
On board the Kangaroo

O, I never thought she would prove false
Or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay
On board the Kangaroo

Think of me O think of me
She mournfully did say
When you were in a foreign land
And I'm far away
Take this lucky three-penny bit
To make you bear in mind
That love and trust and faithful heart
You left in tears behind

Cheer up, cheer up, me own true love
Don't weep so bitterly
She sobbed, she sighed, she chocked, she cried
And could not say goodbye
I won't be gone for very long
Tis but a month or two
When I will return again
Of course I'll visit you

O, I never thought she would prove false
Or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay
On board the Kangaroo

Now our ship, it was homeward bound
From many's the foreign shore
And many's the foreign present
Unto me love I bore
I brought tortoises from Tenneriffe
And toys from Timbucktoo
A China rat, a Bengal cat
And a Bombay cock-a-too

Paid off I sought her dwelling
On a street above the town
Where an ancient in the founder line
Was hanging out her gown
Where is me love, she's vanished, sir,
About six months ago
With a smart young man who drives a van
From Chaplin, Son and Co.

O, I never thought she would prove false
Or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay
On board the Kangaroo

Here's a health to dreams of married life
To soap suds and bloom
Heart's true love and patent starch
And washing soda too
I'll go on to some foreign shores
No longer can I stay
And with some China Hottentott
I'll throw myself away

My love she is no foolish girl
Her age it is two score
Me love she is no spinster
She's been married twice before
I cannot say it was her wealth
That stole me heart away
She's a washer in the laundry
For one and nine a day

O, I never thought she would prove false
Or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay
On board the Kangaroo

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