Music Of The Waters - online book

Sailors' Chanties, Songs Of The Sea, Boatmen's, Fishermen's,
Rowing Songs, & Water Legends with lyrics & sheet music

	64               Music of the Waters.
	THE STORMY WINDS DO BLOW. The following song I also found in Mr. Chappell's book. It is one of Charles Sloman's (1840) :— ' One Friday morn when we set sail, Not very far from land, We there did espy a fair pretty maid With a comb and a glass in her hand, her hand, her hand, With a comb and a glass in her hand. While the raging seas did roar, And the stormy winds did blow, While we jolly sailor-boys were up unto the top, And the land-lubbers lying down below, below, below, And the land-lubbers lying down below. Then up starts the capt'n of our gallant ship, And a brave young man was he ; ' I've a wife and child in fair Bristol town, But a widow I fear she will be.' For the raging seas, &c.