Sandy Denny - Polly On The Shore Lyrics
Come all you wild young men and a warning take by meNever lead your single life astray or into bad companyAs I myself have done, being all in the month of mayWhen i, as pressed by a sea captain, a privateer to tradeTo the east indies we were bound to plunder the raging mainAnd its many the brave and a galliant ship we sent to a watery graveAh, for freeport we did steer, our provisions to renewWhen we did spy a bold man-of-war sailing three feet to our twoOh, she fired across our bows, ``heave to and dont refuseSurrender now unto my command or else your lives youll loseAnd our decks they were sputtered with bloodAnd the cannons did loudly roarAnd broadside and broadside a long time we layTill we could fight no moreAnd a thousand times I wished meself alone,All alone with me polly on the shoreShes a tall and a slender girl with a dark and a-rolling eyeAnd here am i, a-bleeding on the deckAnd for a sweet saint must dieFarewell, me family and me friends, likewise me polly tooId never have crossed the salt sea wideIf Id have been ruled by youAnd a thousand times I saw meself again,All alone with me polly on the shore
