Christy Moore - The Dark Eyed Sailor

As I went a-walking one evening fair

It being the summer to take the air

Oh, I spied a female with a sailor boy

And I stood to listen

And I stood to listen to hear what they might say

He said, "Young maid, why do you roam

Oh, all alone by yonder lea?"

Oh, she heaved a sigh and the tears did roll

"For my dark-eyed sailor

For my dark-eyed sailor, he ploughs the stormy seas"

He said, "You can drive him from your mind

For another young man you surely will find

Love turns aside and it soon grows cold

Like a winter's morning

Like the winter's morning, the hills are white with snow"

She said, "I'll never forsake my dear

Although we are parted for many's a year

How gentle he was, not a rake like you

To induce a maiden

To induce a maiden to slight the jacket blue"

One half of the ring did young William show

She ran distracted in grief and woe

Saying, "William, William, I have gold in store

For my dark-eyed sailor

For my dark-eyed sailor, he has come home again"

There is a cottage by yonder lea

The couple live there and do agree

So maids be true when your love's at sea

For a stormy morning

For a stormy morning brings on a sunny day