My Johnny was a
shoemaker and dearly he loved
me
My Johnny was a
shoemaker but now he's gone to
sea
With
pitch and
tar to soil his
hands
And to sail across the sea, stormy
sea
And sail across the stormy
sea
His jacket was a deep sky blue and curly was his hair
His jacket was a deep sky blue, it was, I do declare
For to reive the topsails up against the mast
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
Some day he'll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew
Some day he'll be a captain bold with a sword and spyglass too
And when he has a gallant captain's sword
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
He'll come home and marry me
(Irish street ballad, original authorship unknown. Probably dates back
to 1600 or so.)