Name: i am a maid that's deep in love
Duration: 5 min 29 s
Channel: it's trad dad
Description: Free MP3 download. one of those songs where the sailor's girlfriend dresses as a lad and goes to sea looking for him. there she encounters the cabin boy's occupational hazard, and deals admirably with it.

i am a maid that's deep in love

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one of those songs where the sailor's girlfriend dresses as a lad and goes to sea looking for him. there she encounters the cabin boy's occupational hazard, and deals admirably with it.

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wyldwyverne

folk singer with acoustic guitar, singing traditional folk-songs and old ballads, and pagan, specifically druidic.

i play guitar and recorders and sing traditional american, english, irish, scottish and australian folksongs, old ballads and some of my own songs. my own songs tend to have pagan themes, specifically, druidic. sometimes one of my friends joins me and we sing harmonies. very occasionally, we sing in other languages.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #754

Peak in subgenre #122

Author

it's trad dad

Rights

public domain

Uploaded

January 14, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.5 MB • 64 kbps • 5:29

Story behind the song

i've stopped worrying about singing songs that someone else made famous within living memory. i've even stopped trying too hard to please. now i'm just singing the ones i like, the way i do when i'm at home. this is one of the best songs on the planet.

Lyrics

i am a maid that's deep in love and yes i can complain
i married a deep sea captain and jimmy is his name
and if my love should go from me i'd mourn most constantly
and i'll rise and follow jimmy to the lands of liberty

oh i'll cut off my yellow hair, men's clothing i'll wear on
i'll sign for a sailing clipper, my passage i'll work free
and i'll rise and i'll follow jimmy to the lands of liberty.

oh we were not three weeks from shore when the captain he said to me
arise ye little cabin boy arise and come to me
for your rosy cheeks and your ruby lips they are enticing me
and i wish i wish with all my heart a maid you were to me

ah hold your tongue dear captain i cried, beware for your good name
for it the crew they should find out they'd laugh and make much game
and when we reach some foreign land some pretty young girl you'll find
and you'll laugh and sport and court with her if for courting you are inclined.

and when we reached some foreign shore so quickly she stepped on shore
fare well my darling captain, farewell forever more
for once i was a lad at sea and now i'm a maid on shore
so farewell to you and all your crew with you i'll sail no more.

come back, come back my young pretty maid, come back and marry me
i have ten thousand pounds in gold and that i'll give to thee
come back come back my young pretty maid, come back and marry me
but she's gone and she's followed jimmy to the lands of liberty. . .

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