歌词
Where have you been, my long-lost love
These seven long years and more?
I am come to seek my former vows you granted me before
'Well I might have married a king's daughter far, far beyond the sea
But I've forsaken the crowns of gold all for the love of thee'
'Well if you might have married a king's
Daughter, yourself you have to blame
For I am married to a ship's carpenter and to him I've a son'
'Well I've seven good ships all upon the
Sea and the eighth brought me to land
And I've four and twenty mariners and gold on every hand'
And so she's taken up her little young
Son and she's kissed him cheek and chin
Saying 'fare you well, my own young son, I'll never see you again'
Now they hadn't been sailing long on
The deep, naught but a league but one
Till she began to weep and mourn and to think on her young son
'Oh hold your tongue, my dearest dear, let all your mourning be
And I'll show you where the white
Fishes swim at the bottom of the sea'
And he struck the topmast with his hand and the mainmast with his knee
And he struck that gallant ship in twain and he sunk her in the sea
