The Ship That Carries Me Home - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
The Ship That Carries Me Home. Copyright, 1885 by Willis Woodward & Co. Words and Music by J. f, Mitchell. 
The ship that carries me home to-day, to she whom I love and prize, Is dancing out on the glist'ning bay. with sails like the fleecy skies; My heart pulsates like the restless tide when I think of my lassie sweet, For we'll join at last, after years have past, and our hearts and our lips shall meet; I'll gather the sailors 'round me in a ring. And this shall be the song that I will sing: 
Chorus. There's a pair of roguish dark blue eyes watching for me on shore, A pair of arms that will twine around, and never lose me more; A smile that's like the sunshine, as it dances on the spray, So sing: "Yo ho! " that the ship may go, which carries me home to-day. 
I've cast my lead in the sea of love, 'tis full twenty fathoms deep. It reflects the joys of a land above, the log in my heart I'll keep; Like a boy I long for the day we'll meet with a ship-wrecked sailor's thirst, On the prow I'll stand, as we near the land, that my eyes shall behold her first; I'll gather the sailors 'round me in a ring, And this shall be the song that I will sing:-Chorus.