D G (G-G/F#m - доп.) We were homeward bound one night on the deep Em A Swinging in my hammock i felt asleep D G D I dreamed a dream and i thought it true G A G D Concerning Franklin and the gallant crew
//As I was wandering on some foreign shore I heard a lady and she did deplore She wept aloud and to me did say Oh, my loving husband, he's so long away//
With a hundred seamen he sailed away To the frozen ocean in the mouth of May To seek a passage around the pole Where all poor sailors do sometimes go
Through cruel hardships they vainly strove The ships on mountains of ice was drove Only the Eskimo in his skin canoe Was the only one that ever came through
In Baffin Bay where the whalefish blow The fate of Franklin no man may know The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell And Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell
And now my burden it gives me pain For my long lost Franklin I would cross the main Ten thousand pounds would I freely give To say on earth that my Franklin does live To say on earth that my Franklin does live