Warren Fahey - Ten Thousand Miles Away (Across the Seven Seas: The Australian Maritime Collection, 2009) | Текст песни

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• Warren Fahey
• Ten Thousand Miles Away (Across the Seven Seas: The Australian Maritime Collection, 2009)

Sing ho, for a brave and gallant ship
And a fair and favouring breeze,
With a bully crew and a captain, too,
To carry me over the seas.
To carry me over the seas, my boys,
To my true love far away;
I’m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away.

Then blow ye winds, heigh ho!
A-roving I will go,
I’ll stay no more on England’s shore
To hear the music play.
I’m off on the morning train
To cross the raging main;
I’m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away.

My true love she was beautiful,
My true love she was young,
Her eyes were like the diamonds bright,
And silvery was her tongue,
So silvery was her tongue, my boys,
Though she’s now far away -
She’s taken a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away.

Oh, dark and dismal was the day
When last I seen my Meg;

She’d a government band around each hand,
And another one round her leg.
And another one round her leg, my boys,
As the big ship left the bay;
‘Adieu,” said she, “remember me,
Ten thousand miles away!”

(Misses verse and first two lines of next verse)

The sun may shine through a London fog,
Or the river run quite clear;
The ocean’s brine be turned to wine,
Or I forget my beer.
Or I forget my beer, my boys,
Or the landlord’s quart a day,
Before I forget my own sweetheart
Ten thousand miles away.

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