Sweet William- William Bone (Hamp) 1907 Gardiner
[No date given. George Gardiner Manuscript Collection (GG/1/17/1097). Charles Gamblin visited Bone in 1907 and was Gardiner's music transcriber.
Sweet William- sung by William Bone of Medstead, Hampshire (66) about November 1907.
A sailor's life is a merry life:
They rob young men of their heart's delight,
Leaving them behind to sigh and mourn:
Never knowing when they will return.
Father, fetch me a little boat
That I may all on the ocean float,
And every Queen's ship I pass by
I may enquire for my sailor boy.
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