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Johnny Todd, he took a notion,
For to cross the ocean wide,
And he left his love behind him,
Weeping by the Liverpool tide.
For a week she wept full sorely,
Tore her hair and wrung her hands.
Then she met another sailor
Walking on the Liverpool sands.
“Why fair maid are you a-weeping
For your Johnny gone to sea?
If you’ll wed with me tomorrow,
I will kind and constant be.
“I will buy you sheets and blankets,
I’ll buy you a wedding ring.
You will have a silver cradle
For to rock your babies in.”
Johnny Todd came home from sailing,
Sailing o’er the ocean wide,
For to find his fair and false one
Was another sailor’s bride.
All young men who go a-sailing
For to fight the foreign foe,
Never leave your love, like Johnny;
Marry her before you go.