Текст песни: Thomas and Nancy + перевод

In Bristol there lived a fair damsel

And she being a beauty most bright

A sailor he loved her fond heartedly

Far dearer than he loved his own life

But when her old father he heard it

He swore that it never would be

I’ll you far from your own country

And I’ll send that young sailor to sea

O Thomas, o Thomas, cried Nancy

We had vowed that we never would part

She fell on the beach broken hearted

And the tears from her blue eyes did start

He pressed this fair maid to his bossom

As the tears down her cheeks fast did flow

He kissed her cold lips and they parted

And he bid her a loving farewell

A ship reached the port and returning

Like some seabird she danced o’er the foam

While Thomas lay on his soft pillow

Dreamed of Nancy and parents and home

There was lightening and loud peels of thunder

There was lightening flashed over the main

The rocks ripped the good ship asunder

And the crew met a watery grave

To the beach, to the beach Nancy oft had visited

She beheld a most terrible sight

'Twas the corpse of her Thomas they carried

To the place where they oft times had been

Next day there were two loyal lovers

Cut down in the height of their bloom

It was said that they loved one another

And was both buried into one tomb

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