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Short Jacket 
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Short Jacket 
Short jacket and blue trousers This fair one she put on; Just like some jolly seaman bold She'd gaily move along. She bargained with one Captain Roth To work her passage free, For to go and seek her own true-love 'Twas on the raging sea. 
One night she sat a-dozing, She were going to her bed; The captain hove a smile and said, "I wish you were a maid. Your cherry cheeks and ruby lips Have all enticed me. I ofttimes wish within my heart, You were the maid for me. 
"Come hold your tongue, dearest captain; Your talk is all in vain. For if our sailors would come to know They would make sport and game; For when that we do reach the shore Some handsome girls we'll find For to rove along with those fair lads That always were inclined. 
It's about a few days after, We reached the Irish shore, "Here's adieu, here's adieu, here's adieu, captain, Here's adieu forevermore. A sailor once I been on board, A maid I reach the shore. Here's adieu, here's adieu, here's adieu, captain, Here's adieu forevermore." 
"Come turn you back, you fair one, Come turn you back to me. A sailor once you been on board, 
A lady you might be." "A sailor once I been on board, A maid I reach the shore. Here's adieu, here's adieu, here's adieu, captain, Here's adieu forevermore." 
From Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland, Greenleaf Collected from Mrs. Tom White, 1929 DT #444 Laws N12 Note: Killen recorded a very similar version in 50 North etc.RG