Farewell my lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu I'm a-going around the ocean wide to seek for something new Come change you ring with me, dear girl Come change your ring with me Let it might be talking of true love when I am on the sea And when I'm far upon the sea, you know not where I am
Kind letters I will write to you from every foreign land There's nothing to protect us, love Or to keep us from the cold On the ocean wide where we must fight to keep our golden souls Farewell my lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu