When the boats all get to sailing
and the men are off and gone,
what about the women
who are up and left alone?
Do you think they sit and twiddle thumbs
until their men come home?
Ha! There's other things to twiddle
when a girl's left on her own.

Well, I remember Nelly,
she was young and she was gay,
she won the heart of Captain Dan
until he sailed away.
He left her high and dry
with just a kiss upon her chin,
but as his ship went sailing out,
another ship sailed in.

And then there was Lucinda Brown,
as fair as any maid,
her truelove went a voyaging,
a sailorman by trade.
"Oh, keep the fire burning, love ",
those are the words he spoke,
so, she went and found another man
to keep that fire stoked.

Lucy Jeffers' man came back
and knocked upon the door,
she was as glad to see him
as she'd ever been before.
He left her sleeping in the bed,
but Lucy didn't care,
'cuz the poor guy in the closet
sure could use a little air.

Oh you hear a lot of stories
'bout the sailors and their sport,
about how every sailor has
a girl in every port,
but if you added two and two,
you'd figure out right quick
it's just because the girls all have
a lad on every ship.