Sailor Boy- (York) c.1890 Kidson Broadside
[Probably collected in Leeds, Yorkshire. From Frank Kidson Broadside Collection Vol.4: FK/12/18/11; no date given, c.1890 (ref. Gardham). Broadside sheet "The Sailor Boy." ("My love is but a sailor boy").
The Frank Kidson Broadside Collection [c.1890]
My love is but a sailor boy
That sails across the deep blue sea,
He wears a mark up on his arm
To bring his memory back to me.
CHORUS: Give me back the one I love,
Give oh, give him back to me,
Give me back the one I love,
Then happy, happy I will be.
My love is like a little bird
That flies across from tree to tree,
And when he gets so far away,
You'll find he thinks no more of me.
Think of me and bear in mind,
A constant love is hard to find;
And when you get one good and true,
Never change the old one for the new.