SEA SONGS - online songbook

70 Traditional Sea & sailing related songs with complete lyrics.

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	THE LETTER EDGED WITH BLACK. The boat came off with letters and nearly all got some ; The one that didn't get one, why, I tell you, he looked glum ; A black-edged one they gave to me, and, Lord ! how my hand shook ; And how my heart sank in me as that letter, lass, I took; Who could it be was dead at home ? was it Nan or Jack or you ? I must read it by myself alone, away from all the crew. J could at once have cried outright; what would it tell to me ? Oh ! wife, lass, how we love you all when we're away at sea!