Song Lyrics Unknown - Handsome Cabin Boy [Lyrics & Song Text Archive]

lyrics archive>> U>> Unknown Singer Lyrics [Unknown other resources]>> Handsome Cabin Boy Song Lyrics

Author/Artist/Singer:	Unknown
Music Title/Track:	Handsome Cabin Boy
Theme ID:	4244
Album:	N/A

THE HANDSOME CABIN BOY

It's of a pretty female as you will understand
Her mind was set on rambling into a foreign land
She dressed herself in man's attire and boldly did appear
And she engaged with a captain to serve him for a year.

The captain's lady being on board, she seemed in great joy
To think that the captain had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
And many's the time she cuddled and kissed, and she would have
liked to toy
But 'twas the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin
boy

Her cheeks they were like roses, her hair was all a-curl
The sailors often smiled and said, he looks just like a girl
But eating the captain's biscuit, well, her color it did destroy
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy.
As through the Bay of Biscay our gallant ship did plough
One night among the sailors there came an awful row
They tumbled from their hammocks for their rest it did destroy
They complained about the groaning of the handsome cabin boy

It's doctor, dearest doctor, the cabin boy did cry
My time has come, I am undone, surely I must die
The doctor ran with all his might, a-smiling at the fun
For to think a cabin boy could have a daughter or a son

Now when the sailors heard the joke, they all began to stare
The child belongs to none of us, they solemnly did swear
And the lady to the captain said "My dear I wish you joy
For it was either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy."

Come all of you bold fellows and we'll drink success to trade
And likewise to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maid
And if the wars should rise again, us sailors to destroy
Well, here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin
boy.
-----------------------------------------------------------------

A popular broadside ballad of shipboard carryings-on. This
version from Louis Killen; it derives from that sung by one of
the greatest ballad singers of all times, Jeannie Robertson of
Aberdeen.

Recorded by John Roberts and Tony Barrand on "Mellow with Ale
from the Horn", FHR-04
@transvestite @sailor
filename[ CABINBOY
play.exe CABINBOY
DC
===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY

Related Lyrics

Random lyrics: Hard Crackers Come Again No More , Hard Life Of The Cut, Hard Love, Hard Times Come Again No More, Hard Times Of Old England , Hard Working Miner, Hares On The Mountain, Hark The Herald Angels Sing, Harmony , Harp Without A Crown, Harrison Brady, Hartley Bill, Harvestsupper Song , Haughs of Cromdale, Haul Awa, Haul Away Joe, Haul Er Away , Hava Nagila, Have Some Madiera Mdear, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hawaiian Beaches , Hawthorn Tree, Hbombs Thunder, Headin For Halifax, Healing Hands , Health To The Company, Hearth And Fire, Heartland, Heather On The Moor , Heavyhipted Woman, Hedgehog Song, Heigh Ho For A Husband, Hell In Texas , Help, Help For The Helper, Help Me Make It Through The Yard, Henry Martin , Henry My Son, Here We Come A Wassailing, Heres To The Last To Die, Heres To The Regular Air Force Korea , Heres To The Women, Heres To You Rounders, Heres Your Mule, Hermit , Herring Croon, Hes Got The Whole World In His Hand, Hexhamshire Lass, Hey Good Lookin , Hey Robin Jolly Robin,

Other Unknown song Lyrics
99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall Lyrics
A Bird in a Gilded Cage Lyrics
A Fenian Song Lyrics
A Fool Such As I Lyrics
A Friend Like You Lyrics
A Hero of the Wrong War Lyrics
A Horse Named Bill Lyrics
A Hundred Years from Now Lyrics
A Kangaroo Sat on an Oak Lyrics
A Little Bit of Solitude Lyrics
A Living Wage Lyrics
...Show All

Other Artists
Unknown Prophets Lyrics
Unleashed Lyrics
Unleashed Power Lyrics
Unlimited Nation Lyrics
Unlimited Sound Lyrics
UNLOCO Lyrics
Unlord Lyrics
UNLV Lyrics
Unni Wilhelmsen Lyrics
Uno Svenningsson Lyrics