SEA SONGS - online songbook

70 Traditional Sea & sailing related songs with complete lyrics.

	THE WIFE'S WATCH. Oh, his ship, it was doomed, they said, But a man he was every inch ; "; I must earn, for my wife, her bread, And I'm not the one to flinch." A minute, and I stood there With his last kiss on my lips ; Oh, what, for wives, do they care Who grow rich by the loss of ships ! The spring should have brought him home. But I watch through the winter gales, Looking far o'er the racing foam, All in vain, for his home-bound sails ; Oh, when will he come ? Oh, when ? Will he never come back to me ? Oh, why are there heartless men Who send husbands to drown at sea 1