Ten Thousand Miles Away
England is about 10,000 miles away from Australia by ship.
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Sea Shanty
Singing Ho! for a brave and a gallant bark,
With a brisk and a lively crew,
Singing Oh! for a lively captain
And a jolly good ship too,
To carry me o'er the seas, my boys,
To my true-love away,
For she's taken a trip in a government-ship,
Ten thousand miles away.
(Chorus)
Then blow ye winds heigh-ho!
A-roving I will go
I'll stay no more on England's shore,
So let the music play
I'll start by the morning train,
Across the raging main,
And all the way to my own true love,
Ten thousand miles away.
My true-love, she was handsome,
And my true-love, she was young;
Her eyes were blue as the violet's hue,
And silvery sounds her tongue,
And silvery sounds her tongue, my boys
And while I sing this lay
She's doing the grand in a distant land,
Ten thousand miles away.
(Chorus)
Dark and dismal was the day
When last I saw my Meg,
She'd a government-band around each hand,
And another round her leg,
And another round her leg, my boys;
As the good ship left the bay
"Adieu," said she, "Remember me
Ten thousand miles away."
(Chorus)
