Polly On The Shore-Fairport Convention

[ti:Polly On The Shore] [ar:Fairport Convention] [al:Nine] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.73]Come all you wild young men and a warning take by me [00:08.89] [00:10.08]Never lead your single life astray or into bad company [00:18.25] [00:18.94]As I myself have done [00:22.56] [00:23.43]Being all in the month of May [00:27.24] [00:28.18]When I as pressed by a sea captain [00:32.69]A privateer to trade [00:37.24] [00:39.36]To the East Indies we were bound [00:43.16] [00:43.98]To plunder the raging main [00:47.66] [00:48.41]And it's many the brave and a galliant ship [00:52.84]We sent to a watery grave [00:57.34]Ah for Freeport we did steer [01:01.64]Our provisions to renew [01:05.69] [01:06.51]When we did spy a bold man-of-war [01:11.31]Sailing three feet to our two [01:16.17] [01:33.53]Oh she fired across our bows Heave to and don't refuse [01:42.01] [01:42.69]Surrender now unto my command or else your lives you'll lose [01:50.88] [01:51.45]And our decks they were sputtered with blood and the cannons did loudly roar [02:00.30]And broadside and broadside a long time we lay till we could fight no more [02:09.23] [02:09.79]And a thousand times I wished myself alone [02:16.09] [02:16.66]All alone with my Polly on the shore [02:24.33] [04:02.41]She's a tall and a slender girl with a dark and a-rolling eye [04:10.96] [04:11.52]And here am I [04:13.71]A-bleeding on the deck and for a sweet saint must lie [04:20.01] [04:20.57]Farewell my family and my friends [04:23.96] [04:25.08]Likewise my barley too [04:28.71] [04:29.52]I'd never have crossed the salt sea wide if I'd have been ruled by you [04:37.63] [04:38.62]And a thousand times I saw myself again [04:45.30]All alone with my Polly on the shore