Salt Salt Sea

Gather round me laddies

My story you will hear

About a lovely lady whom 

In the spring of the year

I could not refuse her

When she came unto me

For what can a sailor be

Without his salt, salt sea?

It’s often that I think of her 

As I lay alone asleep

And how I did swim laughing in her briny, briny deep

When I hear her calling

Wherever I may be

I’ll be sailing back to see my salt, salt sea

Across the sea

Her smiles are the sunny rays 

After every storm

That brighten all the world

Upon the following morn

Her tears are like showers 

And they’re raining down on me

And flowing like a river

To the salt, salt sea

(chorus)

It’s time to push off laddies

It’s time to go to work

She’s sad, and I know it

By the soaking of my shirt

So haul away me bully boys

And toss a towel to me

I’ll be drying out away 

From me salt, salt sea