Captain, Captain, Tell Me True- Wilbur Addison (VA-CO) c.1920 (recorded in 1964) Lumpkin
[Two lines with music from Ben Gray Lumpkin Collection. Additional text Colorado Folksong Bulletin - Volume 3 - Page 28, titled "Captain, Tell Me True." Apparently there are four stanzas (two missing on Google Books).
R. Matteson 2017]
Captain, Captain, Tell Me True- sung by Wilbur C. Addison of Denver, Colorado, on 1/2/1964. Learned in Virginia about 1920.
"Captain, captain, tell me true:
Does my Sweet Willie sail with you?"
"No, oh no, he's not with me,
For he is on the deep blue sea."
"Father, oh Father, build me a boat,
So on the ocean I can float.
"And every ship that I pass by
I think I hear my Willie cry.