I'll Go 'List For a Sailor (live) - Jim Moray

I'll Go 'List For a Sailor live at the Trafalgar Square in 2009

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~Lyrics~

Oh list, oh list to me sorrowful lay,
And attention give to my song, I pray,
When you've heard it girl you'll say
I'm an unfortunate tailor.

For once I was happy as a bird in a tree,
My Sarah was all in the world to me,
Now I'm cut out by a son of the sea,
And she's left me here to bewail her.

All me days were honey and me nights were the same,
'Til a man called Cobb from the ocean came
With his dark hair and his muscular frame,
A captain on board of a whaler.

For he spent his money both brisk and free,
With his tales of the land and his songs of the sea,
And he stole me Sarah's heart from me,
And blighted the hopes of a tailor.

Why did Sarah serve me so?
No more will I stitch and no more will I sew;
Me thimble and me needle to the winds I'll throw
And I'll go and 'list for a sailor.

Well, once I was with her, when in came Cobb
"Avast!" he cried, "you blubbery swab.
If you don't knock off I'll scuttle your knob!"
And Sarah smiled at the sailor.

So now I'll cross the raging sea,
For Sarah's proved untrue to me.
My heart's locked up and she's the key;
What a very unfeeling jailer.

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