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Kate Bush - The Handsome Cabin Boy Lyrics

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  • 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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