Polly on the Shore Lyrics

Come all you wild young men and a warning take by
me Never lead your single life astray or into bad
company As I myself have done, being all in the
month of May When I, as pressed by a sea captain,
a privateer to trade To the East Indies we were
bound to plunder the raging main And it's many the
brave and a galliant ship we sent to a watery
grave Ah, for Freeport we did steer, our
provisions to renew When we did spy a bold
man-of-war sailing three feet to our two Oh, she
fired across our bows, "Heave to and don't refuse
Surrender now unto my command or else your lives
you'll lose" And our decks they were sputtered
with blood and the cannons did loudly roar And
broadside and broadside a long time we lay till we
could fight no more And a thousand times I wished
myself alone, all alone with my Polly on the shore
She's a tall and a slender girl with a dark and
a-rolling eye And here am I, a-bleeding on the
deck and for a sweet saint must lie Farewell, my
family and my friends, likewise my barley too I'd
never have crossed the salt sea wide if I'd have
been ruled by you And a thousand times I saw
myself again, all alone with my Polly on the shore