Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Polly On The Shore, artist - Fairport Convention. Album song Come All Ye - The First Ten Years (1968 To 1978), in the genre Фолк-рок
Date of issue: 29.06.2017
Record label: UMC, Universal Music Operations
Song language: English
Polly On The Shore |
Come all you wild young men and a warning take by me Never lead your single life astray or into bad company |
As i myself have done, being all in the month of may |
When i, as pressed by a sea captain, a privateer to trade |
To the east indies we were bound to plunder the raging main |
And it’s many the brave and a galliant ship we sent to a watery grave |
Ah, for freeport we did steer, our provisions to renew |
When we did spy a bold man-of-war sailing three feet to our two |
Oh, she fired across our bows, ``heave to and don’t refuse |
Surrender now unto my command or else your lives you’ll lose'' |
And our decks they were sputtered with blood |
And the cannons did loudly roar |
And broadside and broadside a long time we lay |
Till we could fight no more |
And a thousand times i wished meself alone, |
All alone with me polly on the shore |
She’s a tall and a slender girl with a dark and a-rolling eye |
And here am i, a-bleeding on the deck |
And for a sweet saint must die |
Farewell, me family and me friends, likewise me polly too |
I’d never have crossed the salt sea wide |
If i’d have been ruled by you |
And a thousand times i saw meself again, |
All alone with me polly on the shore |