Handsome Cabin Boy

Handsome Cabin Boy

It's all a pretty female, as you may understand

Her mind invent her ramblin' unto some foreign land

She dressed herself in sailors clothes or so it does have been

And she hidin' with the Capt'n to sailin' for a year

The Capt'n's wife she'd on board she'd seen it in great joy

To think her husband had engaged such a hansome cabin boy

And now and then she'd slip him a kiss and she would have liked to toy

But it was the Capt'n who found out the secret of the hansome cabin boy

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

The Sailors often smiled and said she looks just like a girl

But 'e didn't know the Capt'n's bisquits they're colored and destroyin'

The wasted swell of Pretty Nell, the hansome cabin boy

It was in the Bay of Bisquane our gallant ship did plow

One night one of the sailors was fearful an blowin' aroun'

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

They swore about the groanin' O' the hansome cabin boy

"O Doctor, Dear O Doctors the cabin boy did cry

Me time has come, I am undone, and I shall surely die!"

The doctor come a runnin' an smilin' an havin' fun

To think his sailor had latchered out a daughter or a son!

The sailors went, THEY SAW THE JOKE, they all did stand and stare

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

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

For it's either you or me has betrayed the hansome cabin boy"

So each man took his dock of rum and 'e drank success to trade

And likewise too, the cabin boy who was neither man nor mate

'ERE'S 'OPIN' THE WARS DON'T RISE AGAIN OUR SAILORS NOT DESTROYED

AND 'ERE'S 'OPIN' FOR A JOLLY LOT MORE LIKE THE HANSOME CABIN BOY