Lyrics:

Now as I was a-walking down by the seashore
Where the wind it did whistle and the waves they did roar
There I heard a fair maid make a terrible sound
Like the wind and the waves that did echo all around

Crying, 'Oh, my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
And he's drowned
And I never will see him no more'

She'd a voice like a nightingale, skin like a dove
And the song that she sang, it was all about love
And when I asked her to marry me, oh, marry me please
But the answer she gave me, 'My love's drowned in the seas'

Crying, 'Oh, my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
And he's drowned
And I never will see him no more'

So I said I had gold with silver beside
On a coach and six horses, with me she could ride
But she said, 'I will not marry, nor prove you a wife
I'll be constant and true all the days I have life'

Crying, 'Oh, my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
And he's drowned
And I never will see him no more'

Then she flung her arms wide and she took a great leap
From the cliffs that were high, to the billows so deep
Saying, 'The rocks of the ocean shall be my deathbed
And the shrimps of the sea shall swim over my head'

Crying, 'Oh, my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
And he's drowned
And I never will see him no more'

And now every night at six bells they appear
When the moon shines bright and the stars they are clear
These two constant lovers with each other's charms
Rolling over and over in each other's arms

Crying, 'Oh, my love is gone
He's the youth I adore
And he's drowned
And I never will see him no more
And I never will see him no more
And I never will see him no more'