Bold Privateer.
It’s oh! my dearest Polly, you and I must part,
I am going across the seas, love, I give to you my heart,
My ship she lies in waiting, so fare thee well, my dear,
I am just a going on board of the Bold Privateer.
But oh, my dearest Johnny, great dangers have been cross’d,
And many a sweet life by the seas has been lost;
You had better stop at home with the girl that loves you dear,
Than to venture your life on the Bold Privateer.
When the wars are over, may heaven spare my life,
Then soon I will come back to my sweet, loving wife.
Then soon I will get married to charming Polly dear,
And forever bid adieu to the Bold Privateer.
Oh! my dearest Polly, your friends do me dislike,
Besides you have two brothers who’d quickly take my life.
Come, change your ring with me, my dear, come change your ring with me,
And that shall be our token when I am on the sea.