Bush Kate The Handsome Cabin Boy Lyrics

The Handsome Cabin Boy Lyrics

It's of a pretty female as you may understand

 Her mind been bent for rambling into some foreign land

 She dressed herself in sailor's clothes, or so it does appear

 And she hired with a captain to serve him for a year

 

 Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl

 The sailors often smiled and said he looked just like a girl

 But eating all the captain's biscuit her colour did destroy

 And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy

 

 It was in the Bay of Biscay her gallant ship did plow

 One night among the sailors was a fearful floorin' row

 They tumbled from their hammocks, for their sleep it did destroy

 And they swarmed about the groanin' of the handsome cabin boy

 

 "Oh doctor, dear.  Oh doctor," the cabin boy did cry

 "The time has come -- I am undone, and I will surely die"

 The doctor come a'runnin' and a'smilin' at their fun --

 To think a sailor lad should have a daughter or a son

 

 The sailors when they saw the joke, they all did stand and stare

 The child belonged to none of them, they solemnly did swear

 And the captain's wife she says to him, "My dear I wish you joy

 For 'tis either you or me's betrayed the handsome cabin boy"

 

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