Johnny Todd

Johnny Todd he took a notion

For to cross the ocean wide

And he left his love behind him

Walkin' down by the Liverpool tide

For a week she wept full sorrows

Tore her hair and wrung her hands

Till she met another sailor

Walkin' down by the Liverpool sands

Why fair maid are you a-weeping

For your Johnny he's gone to sea?

If you wed with me tomorrow

I'll be by you constantly

I will buy you clothes and blankets

I'll buy you a wedding ring

You shall have a golden cradle

For to rock your baby in

Johnny Todd came home from sailin'

Sailin' on that ocean wide

And he found his fair and false one

Was another sailor's bride

Now, all you men who go a-sailing

For to fight the foreign foe

Never leave, never leave love like Johnny

Marry her before you go