Caroline and her young sailor bold

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There lived a rich nobleman's daughter

Caroline is her name we are told,

one day from her drawing-room window

she admired a young sailor bold.

"Oh", she cried, "I'm a nobleman's daughter,

my income's five thousand in gold

I'll forsake both my father and mother

and I'll marry a young sailor bold."

Says William, "Fair lady, remember

your parents you are bound to mind

in sailors there are no dependence

for they leave their true lovers behind."

And she says, "There is no one could prevent me

one moment to alter my mind,

in the ships I'll be off with my true love

and he never will leave me behind."

Three years and a half on the ocean

and she always proved loyal and true,

her duty she did like a sailor

dressed up in her jacket of blue.

When at last they arrived back in England

straightway to her father she went.

"Oh father, dear father, forgive me,

deprive me forever of gold.

Just grant me one favour I ask you

to marry a young sailor bold."

Her father looked up on young William

in love and in sweet unity

"And if I be spared 'til tomorrow

it's married this couple shall be."