Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

My Sailor Boy, Tom - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
MY SAILOR BOY, TOM. Copyright, 1888, by Chas D. Blake & Co. Written by J. H. Conway. Music by D. H. Fitzgibbon. 
You ask me, my child, why I'm weeping to night. Why these tears that you see on my cheek; Draw close to my side and I'll tell you, my child, Why, to-night, I so bitterly weep. It is twelve years to day since Tom went away, My sailor boy, brave and true; In the dark hour of night he fell in the fight, And he sleeps 'neath the waters so blue. 
Chorus. It is twelve years to day since Tom went away, My sailor boy, brave and true; In the dark hour of night he fell in the fight, And he sleeps 'neath the watt r.- so blue. 
In a far distant crime 'neath a sunny bright sky, Where the waves gently roll on shore; They have laid him to rest, and he's now with the blest, Oh, my boy, I can never see you more. Not until that happy day when I'm called away To realms of bliss in the sky; Oh, how happy I will be from care and sorrow free, With my sailor boy forever by my side.-Chorus.