Home Boys Home

Chorus:

And it's home boys, home!

Home I'd like to be, home for a while, in me own country

Where the oak and the ash and the bonny elm tree

Are all a-growin' green in me own country

There was an apprentice lived in Strawberry lane

Loved by her master and her mistress the same

Until I a sailor lad came sailing o'er the sea

And that was the beginnin' of her misery

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The maid being innocent she thought it was no harm

To go into bed for to keep her back warm

He hugged her and he kissed her and he called her his dear

Said, "I wish me love this night it was as long as a year"

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'Twas early next morning the sailor lad arose

And into her apron he put handfuls of gold

"Take this me dear for the mischief that I've done,

Last night I may have left you with a daughter or a son".

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"And if you have a girl child then dance her on your knee

And if you have a male child well call him after me

And when he is a man you can dress him up in blue

And he'll go skipping up the rigging like his daddy used to do".

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So come on all ye lassies, a warning take by me

And never let a sailor lad an inch above your knee

For once I met a sailor lad and he beguiled me

And he left me with a pair of twins to dandle on me knee.

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