Polly on the shore lyrics

Artist  : Fairport convention 
Song : Polly on the shore
 
Come all you wild young men and a warning take by
me
Never lead your single life astray or into bad
company
As I myself have done, being all in the month of
May
When I, as pressed by a sea captain, a privateer
to trade
To the East Indies we were bound to plunder the
raging main
And it's many the brave and a galliant ship we
sent to a watery grave
Ah, for Freeport we did steer, our provisions to
renew
When we did spy a bold man-of-war sailing three
feet to our two
Oh, she fired across our bows, "Heave to and
don't refuse
Surrender now unto my command or else your lives
you'll lose"
And our decks they were sputtered with blood and
the cannons did loudly roar
And broadside and broadside a long time we lay
till we could fight no more
And a thousand times I wished myself alone, all
alone with my Polly on the shore
She's a tall and a slender girl with a dark and
a-rolling eye
And here am I, a-bleeding on the deck and for a
sweet saint must lie
Farewell, my family and my friends, likewise my
barley too
I'd never have crossed the salt sea wide if I'd
have been ruled by you
And a thousand times I saw myself again, all
alone with my Polly on the shore