Home Boys Home - Luke Kelly

Ah, well who wouldn’t be a sailor lad, a sailin' on the

Main

To gain the good will of his Captain’s good name

He came ashore, one evening from the sea

And that was beginning of me own true love and me

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And it’s home boys, home

Home I’d like to be, home for awhile

In me own country, where the oak and the ash and the

Bonny rowan tree

Are all a growin' greener, in the North Country

I asked her for a candle for to light me way to bed

Likewise for a handkerchief to tie around me head

She tended to me needs, like a young maid ought to do

Then I says to her, why don’t you jump in with me too

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She jump into bed and makin' no alarm,

Thinking a young sailor lad could do to her no harm

I hugged her;

I kissed her, the whole night long

Till she wished the short night had been seven years

Long

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Early next morning the sailor lad arose

And into Mary’s apron, threw a handful of gold

Sayin' «Take this, my dear.

For the damage that I’ve

Done,

For tonight I fear I’ve left you with a daughter or a

Son.»

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And if it be a girl child, send her out to nurse

With gold in her pocket and with silver in her purse

And if it be a boy child, he’ll wear the jacket blue

And go climbing up the riggin', like his daddy used to

Do

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So come all of you fair maidens, a warning take be me

Never let a sailor lad an inch above your knee

I trusted one and he beguiled me

He left me with a pair of twins to dandle on me knee

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