Polly On The Shore Lyrics

Come all you wild young men and a warning take by meNever lead your single life astray or into bad companyAs I myself have done, being all in the month of MayWhen I, as pressed by a sea captain, a privateer to tradeTo the East Indies we were bound to plunder the raging mainAnd it's many the brave and a galliant ship we sent to a watery graveAh, for Freeport we did steer, our provisions to renewWhen we did spy a bold man-of-war sailing three feet to our twoOh, she fired across our bows, "Heave to and don't refuseSurrender now unto my command or else your lives you'll lose"And our decks they were sputtered with blood and the cannons did loudly roarAnd broadside and broadside a long time we lay till we could fight no moreAnd a thousand times I wished myself alone, all alone with my Polly on the shoreShe's a tall and a slender girl with a dark and a-rolling eyeAnd here am I, a-bleeding on the deck and for a sweet saint must lieFarewell, my family and my friends, likewise my barley tooI'd never hvae crossed the salt sea wide if I'd have been ruled by youAnd a thousand times I saw myself again, all alone with my Polly on the shore