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Great Big Sea
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What ails you, my daughter dear?
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Your eyes, they look so dim,
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Have you had any sore sickness,
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Or yet been sleeping with a man?
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No I haven't had any sore sickness,
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But I know what's ailing me,
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I am thinking of my own true love
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Who ploughs the raging sea.
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Is he a lord or a duke or a knight
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Or a man of wealth and fame?
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Or is he one of our sailor lads
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Come tell me now his name.
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He is no lord nor duke nor knight
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Nor a man of wealth or fame.
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He is one of your sailor lads
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John Barbour is his name.
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Now if John Barbour is his name,
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A lowly sailor man is he,
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If John Barbour is his name,
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Then hanged he shall be.
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Then he called his sailors all
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By one, by two, by three
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John Barbour was the first he called
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But the last came down was he.
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When he came a dancing down,
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He was clothed all in white
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His cheeks were like the roses red
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And his teeth were ivory bright.
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He paid their wages with a smile
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And to John Barbour he did say
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If I was a woman as I am a man
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My bed fellow you would be.
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And will you marry my daughter Jane?
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And take her by the hand
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And will you come and dine with me
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Take charge of all my lands.
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Yes I will marry your daughter Jane
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And take her by the hand
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And I will come and dine with you,
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But to hell with all your land.
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For if you can give her one gold piece,
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Then I can give her three.
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For they call me young John Barbour
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And I plough the raging sea
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