Adieu, My Lovely Nancy - Altan

Adieu, my lovely Nancy

Ten thousand times adieu

I’ll be thinking of my own true love

I’ll be thinking, dear, of you

Will you change your ring with me, my love?

Will you change your ring with me?

It will be a token of our love

When I am far at sea

When I am far away from home

And you know not where I am

Love letters I will write to you

From every foreign strand

When the farmer boys return at night

They will tell their girls fine tales

Of all that they’ve been doing

All day out in the fields

Of the wheat and hay that they cut down

Sure it’s all that they can do

While we poor jolly, jolly hearts of oak

Must plow the seas all through

And when we return again, my love

To our own dear native shore

Fine stories we will tell to you

How we plowed the oceans o’er

And we’ll make the alehouses to ring

And the taverns, they will roar

And when our money is all gone

Sure we’ll go to sea for more