Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea- Obray Ramsey (NC) 1961 REC
[From the recording, "Obray Ramsey Sings Folksongs From The Three Laurels," on Prestige International – INT 13020, 1961. Slightly different from his mentor Lusford's version-- still g=has Carter Family stanzas.
R. Matteson 2017]
Sailor on the Deep Blue Sea - sung and recorded by Obray Ramsey of North Carolina with banjo in 1961.
1. It was on one Sunday evening
Just about the hour of three,
That's when My darling left me,
To sail on the deep blue sea.
2. "Oh, captain, can you tell me,
Can you tell me where he may be?"
"Oh yes, my little maiden,
He’s drownded in the deep blue sea."
3. Oh He promised to write me a letter,
He promised to write to me,
But I haven't heard from my darling,
He's sailing on the deep blue sea.
4. My mother's dead and buried,
My daddy's forsaken me,
I have no one to love me,
But the sailor on the deep blue sea.
5. Then go tell all my friends and relations,
This is the last you'll ever see of me,
I'm going to end my troubles
By drowning in the deep blue sea.