Peter Bellamy – Here's Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy

Here’s adieu, sweet lovely Nancy
Ten thousand times adieu
I’m a-going around the ocean, love
To seek for something new

Verse 2: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

Come change your ring with me, dear girl
Come change your ring with me
For it might be a token of true love
While I am on the sea

Verse 3: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

When I am far upon the sea
You knows not where I am
Kind letters I will write to you
From every foreign land

Verse 4: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

The secrets of your mind, dear girl
Are thе best of my goodwill
So let my body be whеre it might
My heart is with you still

Verse 5: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

There’s a heavy storm a-rising
See how it gather round
While we poor sailors are on the sea
Are fighting for the crown

Verse 6: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

Our officer commanded us
And him we must obey
Expecting every moment
All to get cast away

Verse 7: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

There are tinkers, tailors and shoemakers
Lie snoring in their sleep
While we poor souls on the ocean wide
Are ploughing through the deep

There’s nothing to defend us, love
Nor to keep us from the cold
On the ocean wide where we must bide
Like jolly seamen bold

Verse 9: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

But when the wars are all over
There’ll be peace on every shore
We will drink to our wives and our children
And the girls that we adore

Verse 10: Peter Bellamy & Chris Birch

We’ll call for liquor merrily
And spend our money free
And when our money it is all gone
We’ll boldly go to sea