Stan Rogers - The Jeannie C. lyrics

Come all ye lads, draw near to me, that I be not forsaken This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my living has been taken I'll go to sea no more We set out his day in the bright sunrise, the same as any other My son and I and old John Price in the boat named for my mother I'll go to sea no more Now it's well you know what the fishing has been, it's been scarce and hard and cruel But this day, by God, we sure caught cod, and we sang and we laughed like fools I'll go to sea no more I'll never know what it was we struck, but strike we did like thunder John Price give a cry and pitched overside. Now it's forever he's gone under I'll go to sea no more Now a leak we've sprung, let there be no delay if the Jeannie C. we're saving John Price is drown'd and slip'd away. So I'll patch the hole while you're bailing I'll go to sea no more But no leak I found from bow to hold. No rock it was that got her But what I found made me heart stop cold, for every seam poured water I'll go to sea no more My God, I cried as she went down. That boat was like no other My father built her when I was nine, and named her for my mother I'll go to sea no more And sure I could have another made in the boat shop down in Dover But I would not love the keel they laid like the one the waves roll over I'll go to sea no more So come all ye lads, draw near to me, that I be not forsaken This day was lost the Jeannie C. and my whole life has been taken I'll go to sea no more: