Текст песни: Mary Neal + перевод

I am a young and undaunted youth my name is John McCann,

I am a native of Edinburgh and willing to trepan.

For the stealing of an heiress I was laid and left in gaol

And her father says he would hang me for stealing Mary Neal.

All in cold irons I lay bound and my love sent word to me:

«Don't you fear my father’s anger for I will set you free

There’s a good ship that lies awaiting from Derry for to go

And I will bribe the captain that he’ll let no-one know.»

I gave consent and back she went and she stole away her clothes

And to not a one that was in the house her mind she did make known.

We have joined our hands in wedlock bands before that we set sail;

For her father’s wrath I valued not for I loved my Mary Neal.

It was on the proud and the swelling sea our ship did gently glide,

All on our passage to Quebec six weeks a matchless tide.

Until we come to Whitehead Bay we had no cause to wail

But on Whitehead Bay all on that day I lost my Mary Neal.

On the ninth of June in the afternoon a heavy fog come on.

Our captain cries, «Look out, my boys, or else we are all gone.»

Our vessel on the sandy bank was driven by a gale

And forty were washed overboard all along with Mary Neal.

Now many were the lines we threw all in the foaming spray,

And many were the times I dived but I could not find Mary

Till her yellow locks come a-floating all along the wave so high

And it’s now I must stand me trial for a-stealing Mary Neal.

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