Roger Mcguinn - The Handsome Cabin Boy Lyrics
Her mind was set on rambling into a foreign landShe dressed herself in man's attire and boldly did appearAnd she engaged with a captain to serve him for a year.The captain's lady being on board, she seemed in great joyTo think that the captain had engaged such a handsome cabin boyAnd many's the time she cuddled and kissed, and she would haveliked to toyBut 'twas the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabinboyHer cheeks they were like roses, her hair was all a-curlThe sailors often smiled and said, he looks just like a girlBut eating the captain's biscuit, well, her color it did destroyAnd the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy.It's doctor, dearest doctor, the cabin boy did cryMy time has come, I am undone, surely I must dieThe doctor ran with all his might, a-smiling at the funFor to think a cabin boy could have a daughter or a sonNow when the sailors heard the joke, they all began to stareThe child belongs to none of us, they solemnly did swearAnd the lady to the captain said 'My dear I wish you joyFor it was either you or I betrayed the handsome cabin boy.'Come all of you bold fellows and we'll drink success to tradeAnd likewise to the cabin boy who was neither man nor maidAnd if the wars should rise again, us sailors to destroyWell, here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabinboy.
