Fiddler's Green Lyrics Tim O’Brien There's a sad tale I'll tell you of a sailor man's life How his love for the high seas it cost him a wife When I've told you my story I'm sure you'll agree It's not but pure folly when a man goes to sea
Just a young man of twenty I was courting a lass Full of innocent beauty with style and with class But the ships in the harbor they beckoned it seemed I was lured by the trade winds to find fiddler's green
When first I went sailing how a young girl did cry But the lure of the trade winds could not be denied And though she vowed to be faithful as my ship sailed away She would marry another one year from that day
Yo ho ho, fiddler's green Bewitching young sailors with all of your dreams Yo ho ho, she's calm and serene Enchantment awaits you on fiddler's green
Well I've sailed many oceans since I left Boston town And my hair has turned silver it was once chestnut brown And from London to Bombay and ports in between I was always in search of this fiddler's green
And to the young lads now courting pretty maiden's so fair Should you hear those trade winds let me warn you beware Go marry your young girl, as corn and your beans Don't waste your young manhood on fiddler's green
Yo ho ho, fiddler's green Bewitching young sailors with all of your dreams Yo ho ho, she's calm and serene Enchantment awaits you at fiddler's green.