Do Me Ama - Jack Tar

Do Me Ama, sung by Ewan MacColl or A.L. Lloyd, also called (by me) "Ewan the Great", "Ewan the Greit" in Scots.
A wonderful ballad about... A humourful and colourful story! We're happy to meet Jack Tar again, in a new song.
The lyrics:
As a sailor was walking one fine summer day,
The squire and the lady were making their way.
And Jack he heard the squire say,
Tonight with you love I mean to lay
With me do me ama, dee me ama do, me ama day.
You must tie a string all around yer finger,
With the other end of the string hanging out the window,
And I'll slip by and I pull the string,
And you must come down love and let me in
With me do me ama, dee me ama do, me ama day.

Says Jack to himself, I've a mind to try,
To see if a poor sailor he can't win that prize.
So he sleep by and he pulled the string
And the lady come down and she let old Jack in
With that do me ama, dee me ama do, me ama day.

When the squire come by, he was humming a song,
Thinkin' to himself how it wouldn't be long.
But when he got there no string he found,
And behold, his hopes all dashed the ground
With that do me ama, dee me ama do, me ama day.

Early next morning, it was just getting light,
The lady jumped up 'e bed in a terrible fright.
For there lay Jack in the stripy shirt,
His hands recovered with tar and dirt
And that do me ama, me ama dee, me ama day.

Oh what do you want, you tarry sailor,
Breaking in a lady's bedroom to steal 'er treasure?
Oh no, says old Jack, I just pulled that string
And you did come down, ma'm, and let me in
With me do me ama, me ama dee, me ama day.

Says Jack Tar t'the lady, Oh, forgive me I pray,
I'll steal away very quiet at the dawn of the day.
Oh no, says the lady, don't straight far
For I never will part from me jolly Jack Tar
And that do me ama, me ama dee, me ama day.

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[willspires]

Certainly this is A.L. "Bert" Lloyd, from "Blow Boys Blow."

[Chomuno]

You're right-this is from "Blow Boys Blow".

[StatenIslandFolkie]

Sounds more like A.L. Lloyd than Ewan MacColl to me?

[Chomuno]

I think it may be Lloyd, but I'm still not sure, because it was never explained anywhere, so, let the doubt be...

[josette1955]

Ewan MacColl (25 janvier 1915 - 22 octobre 1989) est un chanteur engagé britannique, compositeur, éditeur, acteur, poète et écrivain dramatique. Il est le père de Kirsty MacColl.

Ewan MacColl s'appelle en fait James Henry (Jimmie) Miller. Il est né à Salford, dans le Lancashire en Angleterre, de parents écossais. Il quitte l'école en 1929 et rejoint les Jeunesses Communistes

[Sundragon457]

brilliant song, but whats going on with the jittery camera?!

[donpearson61]

I can confirm that this is Bert Llloyd. I have had this album since the late sixties and saw him perform.