Lord Franklin Lyrics - Sinead Oconnor

We were homeward bound one night on the deep 

Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep 

I dreamed a dream and I thought it true 

Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew 

With 100 seamen he sailed away 

To the frozen ocean in the month of May 

To seek a passage around the pole 

Where all poor sailors do sometimes go. 

Through cruel hardships they vainly strove 

Their ships on mountains of ice was drove 

Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe 

Was the only one that ever came through 

In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow 

The fate of Franklin no man may know 

The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell 

And Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell