Handsome Cabin Boy-Ewan MacColl

[ti:Handsome Cabin Boy] [ar:Ewan MacColl] [al:The Folk Collection Volume One] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Handsome Cabin Boy - Ewan MacColl [00:14.49]It's of a pretty female [00:17.39] [00:19.38]As you may understand [00:20.94] [00:23.89]Her mind being bent for rambling [00:26.54] [00:28.47]Unto some foreign land [00:31.24] [00:32.98]She dressed herself in sailor's clothes [00:36.87] [00:37.62]Or so it does appear [00:39.98] [00:41.35]And she hired with a captain [00:44.85] [00:46.67]To serve him for a year [00:49.26] [00:54.38]The captain's wife she being on board [00:58.46] [00:59.01]She seemed in great joy [01:01.70] [01:03.58]To think her husband had engaged [01:07.12] [01:07.82]Such a handsome cabin boy [01:10.93] [01:12.65]That now and then she'd slip him a kiss [01:16.98]And she'd have liked to toy [01:19.75] [01:20.51]But it was the captain found out the secret [01:24.25] [01:25.15]Of the handsome cabin boy [01:28.87] [01:33.94]Her cheeks they were like roses [01:36.75] [01:37.67]And her hair rolled in a curl [01:41.17] [01:43.06]The sailors often smiled and said [01:46.81] [01:47.54]He looked just like a girl [01:50.29] [01:52.01]But eating of the captain's biscuit [01:55.80] [01:56.35]Her color did destroy [01:58.84] [02:00.03]And the waist did swell of pretty Nell [02:04.44] [02:05.13]The handsome cabin boy [02:07.74] [02:12.46]It was in the bay of Biscay [02:15.57] [02:17.20]Our gallant ship did plow [02:19.89] [02:21.61]One night among the sailors [02:24.03] [02:24.89]Was a fearful flurry and row [02:28.59] [02:30.36]They tumbled from their hammocks [02:33.01] [02:33.77]For their sleep it did destroy [02:37.01] [02:37.88]And they sworn about the groaning [02:41.53] [02:42.41]Of the handsome cabin boy [02:45.85] [02:50.96]Oh doctor dear oh doctor [02:53.66] [02:55.36]The cabin boy did cry [02:58.03] [02:59.79]"My time has come I am undone [03:03.11] [03:04.07]And I will surely die" [03:06.62] [03:08.43]The doctor come a runnin' [03:10.95] [03:12.42]And a smilin' at the fun [03:15.16] [03:16.88]To think a sailor lad should have [03:21.21]A daughter or a son [03:23.65] [03:27.55]The sailors when they saw the joke [03:31.15] [03:31.78]They all did stand and stare [03:34.40] [03:35.89]The child belonged to none of them [03:39.60] [03:40.29]They solemnly did swear [03:42.86] [03:44.16]The captain's wife she says to him [03:48.18] [03:48.81]"My dear I wish you joy [03:51.38] [03:52.67]For it's either you or me's betrayed [03:56.39] [03:57.39]The handsome cabin boy" [03:59.72] [04:03.72]So each man took your tot of rum [04:07.85]And drink success to trade [04:10.66] [04:12.30]And likewise to the cabin boy [04:16.31]That was neither man nor maid [04:19.08] [04:20.82]Here's hoping the wars don't rise again [04:24.23] [04:25.17]Our sailors to destroy [04:27.49] [04:28.43]And here's hoping for a jolly lot more [04:33.48]Like the handsome cabin boy