Ambletown Home Dearie Home lyrics

AMBLETOWN (HOME DEARIE HOME)

O Amble is a fine town with ships about the bay
It`s fain and very fain to be there myself today
I`m wishing in my heart I was far away from here
Sitting in my parlor and talking with my dear

And it`s home, dearie, home, it`s home I want to be
My topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
The oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all a-growing green in the North country
And it`s home, dearie, home

A letter came today, but somehow I cannot speak
And the proud and happy tears are a-rolling down my checks
There`s someone here, she says, you`ve been waiting for to see
With your merry hazel eyes, looking up from off my knee

But the letter never said if we have a boy or girl
Got me so confused that my heart is all a whirl
So I`m going back to port, where I`ll quickly turn around
And take the fastest ship, which to Ambletown is bound

Well, if it be a girl, she shall wear a golden ring
If it be a boy, he shall live to serve the King
With his buckles and his boot and his little jacket blue
He`ll walk the quarterdeck, like his daddy used to do


recorded by Ed Trickett on Telling takes me Home
@plant @tree @sailor @clothing
filename[ AMBLTOWN
SF
===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY
Back to: TRICKETT ED lyrics