Sing home for a brave and gallant ship And a fast and flavoring breeze
With a body crew and a captain too To carry her over the seas
To carry her over the seas, me boys To be true love far away
She's taking a ship on a government ship Ten thousand miles away
Then blow your wings and blow her away And I will go
I'll stay no more on England's shore To hear the fiddlers play
I'm off on the morning train Across the raging May
I'm on the move to me old true love Ten thousand miles away
Me true love she is beautiful And true love she is gay
But she's taking a trip on a government ship Bound up for modern-day Faye
Bound up for modern-day baby boys And though she's far away
I'll never forget me old true love Ten thousand miles away
Then blow your wings and blow her away And I will go
I'll stay no more on England's shore To hear the fiddlers play
I'm off on the morning train Across the raging May
I'm on the move to me old true love Ten thousand miles away
For some summer morning where last I saw me Meg
She'd a government band around each hand And another one round her leg
Another one round her leg, me boys As the big ship sailed away
And you, she said, remember me Where I went modern-day Faye
Then blow your wings and blow her away And I will go
I'll stay no more on England's shore To hear the fiddlers play
I'm off on the morning train Across the raging May
I'm on the move to me old true love Ten thousand miles away
I wish I was an old Samoan Or a sailor without fear
I'd man-evolved in the way I float Now straight for me true love's dear
Straight for me true love's dear, me boys Where the whales and dolphins play
Where whales and sharks are having their laughs Ten thousand miles away
Then blow your wings and blow her away And I will go
I'll stay no more on England's shore To hear the fiddlers play
I'm off on the morning train Across the raging May
I'm on the move to me old true love Ten thousand miles away
Oh, the sun may shine through the London fog Or the river run quite clear
Or the ocean bright turn into white And I'd forget me dear
Oh, I'd forget me dear, me boys On the land lost for the day
But I'd never forget me old true love Ten thousand miles away
Then blow your wings and blow her away And I will go
I'll stay no more on England's shore To hear the fiddlers play
I'm off on the morning train Across the raging May
I'm on the move to me old true love Ten thousand miles away
I'm off on the morning train Across the raging May
I'm on the move to me old true love Ten thousand miles away