Sailor's Trade- Power/Brennan (NL) 1983 Best
[From the 2010 CD "The Colour of Amber" sung by Anita Best & Pamela Morgan with piano accompaniment. According to FolkTrax the text was collected by Genevieve Lehr and Anita Best in 1983 from Phillip Pius Power, Sr [1912-1993] of South East Bight, Clattice Harbour, Placentia Bay, NL. and Aunt Caroline (Carrie) Brennan [1892-1994] of Ship Cove, NL.
R. Matteson 2017]
"A Sailor's Trade is a Weary Life" sung by Anita Best & Pamela Morgan with piano accompaniment, taken from Power and Brennan of Newfoundland in 1983.
A sailor's trade is a weary life,
It rob young girls of their heart's delight,
It causes them for to cry and mourn,
And to rue the hour ever they were born.
It was early, early all in the spring,
My love shipped out for to serve the king,
With the raging seas and the winds blowing high,
Which parted me from my sailor boy.
Oh father, father, build me a boat,
For on the ocean I need to float
And every tall ship that passes by,
I will inquire for my sailor boy.
She had not long been on the deep,
When a man-of-war she chanced to meet,
Oh captain, captain tell me true
If my love Willie sails upon the blue.
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