Текст песни: My Johnny Was A Shoemaker + перевод

Info:

This appeared in English County Songs (1893) under Songs of the Sea.

It had been printed previously in a collection of southern country songs,

Besom Maker and Other Country Folk Songs (1888) by Heywood Sumner.

This version, taken from Colm O’Lochlainn’s excellent 'Irish Stree

Ballads (Vol.II) is only one of several, the song having attained

wide currency in both Britain and Ireland, even turning up in a Welch

version in 4/2 time. The word 'reive' in the second verse, not to be

confused with 'reef', means to draw cord through eyelet holes;

implying perhaps that Johnny will be doing a new kind of sewing.

Lyrics:

My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me

My Johnny was a shoemaker but now he’s gone to sea

With pitch and tar to soil his hands

And to sail across the sea, stormy sea

And sail across the stormy sea

His jacket was a deep sky blue and curly was his hair

His jacket was a deep sky blue, it was, I do declare

For to reive the topsails up against the mast

And to sail across the sea, stormy sea

And sail across the stormy sea

Some day he’ll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew

Some day he’ll be a captain bold with a sword and spyglass too

And when he has a gallant captain’s sword

He’ll come home and marry me, marry me

He’ll come home and marry me.

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