Sailor Boy- Arthur Barron (Aber) 1907 Greig F
[My date. Single stanza with music from The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection - Volume 8 - page 518 by Patrick N. Shuldham-Shaw, ‎Emily B. Lyle - 2002. Song No. 1246
R. Matteson 2017]
Sailor Boy- sung by Arthur Barron, Grieg's son-in-law from Mains of Whitehall, New Deer.
Father, father, build me a boat,
Upon the the ocean that I may float;
For the very last night, when the wind ran high,
We lost a fair young sailor boy.