Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy-The Copper Family

[ti:Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy - The Copper Family [00:01.16]Here's adieu sweet lovely Nancy [00:04.78]Ten thousand times adieu [00:08.53] [00:09.15]I'm a-going around the ocean love [00:12.98]To seek for something new [00:16.67] [00:17.23]Come change your ring with me dear girl [00:21.00]Come change your ring with me [00:24.31] [00:25.11]For it might be a token of true love [00:28.69]While I am on the sea [00:31.91] [00:33.80]When I'm far upon the sea you know [00:38.48]Not where I am [00:40.74] [00:41.66]Kind letters I will write to you [00:45.26]From every foreign land [00:48.79] [00:49.61]The secrets of your heart dear girl [00:53.43]Are the best of my good will [00:56.70] [00:57.47]So let your body be where it might [01:01.00]My heart shall be with you still [01:04.68] [01:06.55]There's a heavy storm a-rising [01:10.40]See how it gathers round [01:13.48] [01:14.30]While we poor souls on the ocean wide [01:18.00]Are fighting for the crown [01:21.46] [01:22.39]There's nothing to protect us love [01:26.20]Or to keep us from the cold [01:29.39] [01:30.19]On the ocean wide where [01:32.48]We must bide like jolly seamen bold [01:37.44] [01:39.33]There's tinkers tailors shoemakers [01:43.06]Lie snoring fast asleep [01:46.49] [01:47.18]While we poor souls on the ocean [01:50.17]Wide are ploughing through the deep [01:53.98] [01:55.10]Our officers commanding us [01:57.97] [01:58.49]And them we must obey [02:02.01] [02:02.69]Expecting every moment for [02:06.69]To get cast away [02:09.94] [02:12.26]But when the wars are all over [02:16.16]There'll be peace on every shore [02:19.74] [02:20.42]We'll return to our wives [02:22.61]And our families and the girls that we adore [02:27.31] [02:28.29]We'll will call for liquor merrily [02:32.06]We will spend our money free [02:35.02] [02:35.96]And when the money [02:38.02]It is all gone we'll boldly go to sea