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Rh and as we heard it again on one of our summer vacations on the cape. Just what its name was she never knew, but something like:

There was a sailor bold
 * Who sailed upon the deep,

And when he left the port
 * His wife did nought but weep.

Chorus: Ding, dong, ding, dong,
 * Hark to the bell-buoy's song;

But stop yer ears, when the Maid ye hears,
 * It's death if ye listen too long.

Oh Jack, she cries, be true.
 * 'These hands are skin and bone

'Worn with workin' fer you,
 * 'And I'll be all alone.'

Oh Jack swore long and loud
 * By Mary Mother o' Men:

'As leal [sic] and true as now I am,
 * 'I'll come back again.'