Steeleye Span - Saucy Sailor lyrics

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Come me own one, come me dear one, <br />Come and tell now to me <br />Can you fancy a poor sailor lad <br />Who has just come from sea? <br /> <br />You are ragged love, and you're dirty love <br />And your clothes smell much of tar <br />So be gone you saucy sailor lad <br />So be gone you Jack Tar <br /> <br />If I'm ragged love, and I'm dirty love <br />And me clothes smell much of tar <br />I've got silver in me pockets love, <br />And of gold a bright store. <br /> <br />And when she heard him say so <br />on her bended knees she fell <br />"To be sure I'll wed my dear henery, for I love sailor lads so well." <br /> <br />Do you think that I am foolish love? <br />Do you think that I am mad? <br />For to wed with a poor country girl <br />When there's fortune to be had <br /> <br />I will cross the briney ocean <br />I will whistle and sing <br />And since you have refused the offer love <br />Some other girl will wear the ring <br /> <br />For I am frolicsome and easy, <br />Going tempered and free <br />And I don't give a single pin me boys <br />What the world thinks of me.<br /><br />