Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy

Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy

Ten thousand times adieu

I am going across the ocean, love

To seek for something new

Come change your ring with me, dear girl

Come change your ring with me

For it might be a token of our true love

While I am on the sea

And when I'm far upon the sea

You'll know not where I am

Kind letters I will write to you

From every foreign land

The secrets of your heart, dear girl

Are the best of my good will

So let your body be where it might

My heart will be with you still

There's a heavy storm arising

See how it gathers round

While we poor souls on the ocean wide

Are fighting for the crown

There's nothing to protect us, love

Or keep us from the cold

On the ocean wide, where we must fight

Like jolly seamen bold

There's tinkers, tailors, shoemakers

Lie snoring fast asleep

While we poor souls on the ocean wide

Are plowing through the deep

Our officers commanded us

And them we must obey

Expecting every moment for

To get cast away

But when the wars are over

There'll be peace on every shore

We'll return to our wives and our families

And the girls that we adore

We'll drink our liquor merrily

And spend our money free

And when the money is all gone

We'll boldly go to sea