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GEST Songs Of Newfoundland And Labrador
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A sailor courted a farmer's daughter
Who lived convenient to the Isle of Man;
Pay heed good people what followed after
They long had courted but underhand.
One day when parting after discoursing
Of things concerning the ocean wide,
He said, "My dear on our next meeting
If you'd give consent I'd make you my bride."
Said she, "For sailors we don't admire them
Because they sail to so many a port,
And the more we love them the more they slight us
And leave us after with broken hearts."
Then he said, "My dearest dear,
I don't intend for to treat you so;
I have once more to cross the ocean,
You know, my darling, that I must go."
The news was carried unto his mother
Before he put his foot on board,
That he was courted by a farmer's daughter
One penny portion could not afford.
One penny portion going to the ocean
Like one distracted his mother ran,
Saying, "If you don't forsake her
And your bride not make her,
I will disown you to be my son."
"Now, mother dear, you're in a passion,
I am sorry you spoke too late;
Don't you remember your first proceedings?
My father married you for a servant maid.
"So don't dispraise her for I mean to raise her,
Just as my father with you have done;
So it's home I take her and my bride I'll make her,
Let my scolding mother say what she will."