“The lot it fell upon Henry Martyn,
The youngest of the three,
That he should go rob on the salt, salt sea,
To maintain his brothers and he.
“He had not a-sailed a long winter’s night,
Nor yet a short winter’s day,
Before he espied a gay merchant ship
Come sailing along that way.
“Oh when that she came to Henry Martyn,
Oh prithee, now let me go!