My love Willie- Tim Lyons (Dub) 1998 REC
[ITMA Reference Number: 1209-ITMA-MP3, recording. http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/sound/my_love_willie_tim_lyons
R. Matteson 2017]
My Love Willie- sung by Tim Lyons at The Trinity Inn on 4 December 1998.
Twas early, early all in the spring,
When my love Willie went to serve the king,
The night was dark and the wind blew high,
It was then I lost my dear sailor boy.
Oh father, father give me a boat,
Out on the ocean as I might float
To watch the big ships as they pass by,
That I might inquire for my sailor boy.
She was not long out upon the deep,
When a man o' war vessel she chanced to meet.
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