Go And 'List For A Sailor

from Go And 'List For A Sailor by Eddy O'Dwyer

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Oh list, oh list, to me sorrowful lay
Attention give to me song I pray
When you've heard it all you'll say
That I'm an unfortunate tailor

I once was as happy as a bird in a tree
And me Sarah was all in the world to me
Now I'm cut out by a son of the sea
And he's left me here to bewail her

(Chorus)
Oh! How could Sarah serve me so?
No more will I stitch, no more will I sew
Me thimble and me needle to the wind I'll throw
And I'll go and 'list for a sailor

Me days were happy and me nights were the same
'Till a man called Cobb from the ocean came
With his long black hair, and his muscular frame;
A captain on board of a whaler
He spent his money both frank and free
With his tales of the land and his songs of the sea
And he stole me Sarah's heart from me
And he blighted the hopes of the tailor

Chorus

Well once I was with her, when in came Cobb
'AVAST!' He cried, 'You blubbering swab,
If you don't knock off, I'll scuttle your knob'
And Sarah smiled at the sailor

So now I'll cross the raging sea
for me Sarah's proved untrue to me
Me heart's locked up, and she's the key
What a very unfeeling jailer

Chorus

So now good friends I'll bid you adieu
No more me woes to trouble you
I'll travel the country through and through
And I'll go and 'list for a sailor

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from Go And 'List For A Sailor, released September 22, 2012
Eddy O'Dwyer - Vocals & Anglo Concertina
James O'Dwyer - Fiddle

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Eddy O'Dwyer Lincolnshire, UK

Lincoln based singer of traditional songs, strummer (and occasionally fingerpicker) of accoustic guitar, and squeezer of concertina, Eddy O'Dwyer is pleased to present this 'debut' album of (mostly) traditional songs.

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