Polly On The Shore Lyrics - Fairport Convention

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 myself alone, all alone with my 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 lie 

Farewell, my family and my friends, likewise my barley too 

I'd never have crossed the salt sea wide if I'd have been ruled by you 

And a thousand times I saw myself again, all alone with my Polly on the shore 

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