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We originally learned this song from a recording of the great Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers. It details a story of a lust-struck captain taking an innocent-looking maiden aboard his ship. At first he is delighted as she sings for them all, but the captain and crew were in for a surprise when they woke back up!
lyrics
There is a young maiden. She lives all alone.
She lives all alone on the shore-o
There’s nothing she can find to comfort her mind
But to wander alone on the shore, shore, shore,
To wander alone on the shore.
‘Twas of the young captain who sailed the salt sea.
Let the wind blow high, blow low.
“I will die, I will die,” the young captain did cry,
“If I don’t have that maid on the shore, shore, shore!
If I don’t have that maid on the shore!
“I have lots of silver, I have lots of gold,
I have lots of costly wear-o.
I’ll divide, I’ll divide with my jolly ship’s crew
If they row me that maid on the shore, shore, shore!
If they row me that maid on the shore!”
After much persuasion, they got her aboard.
Let the wind blow high, blow low.
They replaced her away in his cabin below.
“Here’s adieu to all sorrow and care, care care!
Here’s adieu to all sorrow and care!”
They replaced her away in his cabin below
Let the wind blow high, blow low.
She’s so pretty and neat, she’s so sweet and complete,
She sang sailors and captain to sleep, sleep, sleep,
She sang sailors and captain to sleep.
Then she robbed him of silver, she robbed him of gold,
She robbed him of costly wear-o
And took his broadsword instead of an oar
And paddled her way to the shore, shore shore!
And paddled her way to the shore!
“Well me men must be crazy, me men must be mad,
Me men must be deep in despair-o
For to let you away from my cabin so gay
And to paddle your way to the shore, shore shore,
To paddle your way to the shore!”
“No, your men was not crazy, your men was not mad,
Your men was not deep in despair-o.
I deluded your sailors, as well as yourself.
I’m a maiden again on the shore, shore, shore.
A maiden again on the shore.”
There is a young maiden. She lives all alone.
She lives all alone on the shore-o
There’s nothing she can find to comfort her mind
But to wander alone on the shore, shore, shore,
To wander alone on the shore.
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