Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea- Lunsford (NC) 1956 REC
[From the recording titled, Minstrel of the Appalachians, an album by Bascom Lamar Lunsford released in 1956 (catalog no. RLP 12-645; Vinyl LP). This was probably learned by Lunsfod at a music festival and has the Carter's five core stanzas with minor changes.
R. Matteson 2017]
Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea- as sung and recorded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford of North Carolina with banjo in 1956
1. It was on one Sunday evening
Just about the hour of three,
My darling went and left me,
To sail on the deep blue sea.
2. He promised to write me a letter,
He promised to write to me,
But I haven't heard from my darling,
Since he sailed on the deep blue sea.
3. "Oh, captain, can you tell me,
Can you tell me where he may be?"
"Oh yes, my little maiden,
He’s drownded in the deep blue sea."
4. My mother is dead and buried,
My papa has forsaken me,
And I have no one to love me,
but the sailor on the deep blue sea.
5. Then go tell all my friends and loved ones,
Where ever they may be,
I'm going to end my troubles
By drowning in the deep blue sea.