My Willy Was a Sailor Bold

Just Published, price one penny, The Brave Lord Nelson’s Garland; Being a Choice Collection. . . &c.

My Willy Was a Sailor bold
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, London.

My Willy was a sailor bold
He lov’d no other lass but me,
To earn for Anna store of gold,
My constant Willy went to sea;
When on this trembling lip farewel
Hung, dew-drop like, it rent my heart,
I fet my throbbing bosom swell,
And vow’d from Willy ne’er to part.
In jacket blue and trousers neat,
Snow-white that play’d around my knee,
I join’d the ship in Willy’s fleet—
Most dear to dear—and went to sea;
A storm came on, rude tempests blew,
A pirate flag appall’d each heart—
We struck, they forc’d him join their crew
I scorn’d from Willy still to part.
He knows me not as his true love,
But a kind messmate makes to me,
His truth his constancy I love,
For I’m his constant theme at sea;
Link’s thus by love two minds unite,
Cnjoin’d each boasts a faithful heart,
I’ll guard him in the raging fight,
nor e’en in death with Willy part.

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