She tells him she thinks she needs to be free
He tells her he doesn’t understand
She takes his hand
She tells him nothing’s working out the way they planned
She’s so many women
He can’t find the one who was his friend
So he’s hanging on to half her heart
He can’t have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind
He agrees he thinks she needs to be free
Then she says she’d rather be with him
But it’s just a whim
By which she hopes to keep him on the limb
She’s so many women
He can’t find the one who was his friend
So he’s hanging on to half her heart
He can’t have the restless part
So he tells her to hasten down the wind
One day a mother came to a prison
To see an erring but precious son
She told the warden how much she loved him
It did not matter what he had done
She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven’s light
The sweetest gift, a mother’s smile
Her boy had wandered far from the fireside
Though she had pleaded with him each night
Yet not a word did she ever utter
That told her heart ached, her smile was bright
She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven’s light
The sweetest gift, a mother’s smile
She left a smile you can remember
She’s gone to heaven from heartaches free
Those walls around you will never change her
You were her baby and e’er will be
She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven’s light
The sweetest gift, a mother’s smile
She did not bring to him a parole or pardon
She brought no silver, no pomp or style
It was a halo bright sent down from heaven’s light
The sweetest gift, a mother’s smile
The sweetest gift, a mother’s smile
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Liverpool［リバプール］： イングランドの北西部にあるアイリッシュ海に面した都市
the Arctic Sea［ジ・アークティック・シー］： 北極海
Jamaica［ジャメイカ］： ジャマイカ
When first I landed in Liverpool
I went upon a spree
Me money alas I spent it fast
Got drunk as drunk could be
And when that me money was all gone
‘Twas then I wanted more
But a man must be blind to make up his mind
To go to sea once more
Once more, boys, once more
Go to sea once more
But a man must be blind to make up his mind
To go to sea once more
I spent the night with Angeline
Too drunk to roll in bed
Me watch was new and me money too
In the morning with them she fled
And as I walked the streets about
The whores they all did roar
There goes Jack Spratt, the poor sailorlad
He must go to sea once more
Once more, boys, once more
Go to sea once more
There goes Jack Spratt, the poor sailorlad
He must go to sea once more
And as I walked the streets about
I met with the Rapper Brown
I asked him for to take me on
And he looked at me with a frown
He said last time you was paid off
With me you could no score
But I’ll give you a chance and I’ll take your advance
And I’ll send you to see once more
Once more, boys, once more
Send you to sea once more
I’ll give you a chance and I’ll take your advance
And I’ll send you to see once more
He shipped me on board of a whaling ship
Bound for the Arctic Sea
Where the cold winds blow through the frost and snow
And Jamaica rum would freeze
But worse to bear I’d no hard weather gear
For I’d spent all money on shore
‘Twas then that I wished that I was dead
And could go to sea no more
No more, boys, no more
Go to sea no more
‘Twas then that I wished that I was dead
And could go to sea no more
So come all you bold seafaring men
Who listen to me song
When you come off them long trips
I’ll have you not go wrong
Take my advice, drink no strong drink
Don’t go sleeping with them whores
Get married instead and spend all night in bed
And go to sea no more
No more, boys, no more
Go to sea no more
Get married instead and spend all night in bed
And go to sea no more
