The Handsome Cabin Boy
    
 

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Album Information
Album Name (Year):
 This Woman's Work Anthology 1978-1990 (1990)
Record Label:
EMI Records
Billboard Chart:
Album did not chart
Entry Week (Position):
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Peak Position:
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Songs On This Album: (Click For Lyrics)
Volume 1:
1. The Empty Bullring
2. Ran Tan Waltz
3. Passing Through Air
4. December Will Be Magic Again
5. Warm And Smoothing
6. Lord Of The Reedy River
7. Ne T'enfui Pas
8. Un Baiser D'enfant
9. Under The Ivy
10. Burning Bridge
11. My Lagan Love
12. The Handsome Cabin Boy
13. Not This Time
14. Walk Straight Down The Middle
15. Be Kind To My Mistakes
Volume 2:
1. I'm Still Waiting
2. Ken
3. One Last Look Around The House Before We Go (Instrumental)
4. Wuthering Heights (New Vocal)
5. Experiment IV
6. Them Heavy People
7. Don't Push Your Foot On The Heartbrake
8. James And The Cold Gun
9. L'Amour Looks Something Like You
10. Running Up That Hill
11. Cloudbusting (The Organon Mix)
12. Hounds Of Love (Alternative)
13. The Big Sky (Meteorological Mix)
14. Experiment IV (12" Mix)


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It's of a pretty female as you may understand
Her mind being bent for rambling into
Some foreign land
She dressed herself in sailors clothes
Or so it does appear
And she hired with a captain to serve him
For a year

Her cheeks they were like roses
And her hair all in a curl
The sailors often smiled and said
He looked just like a girl
But eating of the Captain's biscuit
Her color did destroy
And the waist did swell of pretty Nell
The handsome cabin boy

It was in the Bay of Biscay
Our gallant ship did plough
One night among the sailors was a fearful
Flurrying row
They tumbled from their hammocks for
Their sleep it did destroy
And they swore about the groaning of
The handsome cabin boy

Oh doctor dear oh doctor the cabin boy did cry
The time has come I am undone
And I will surely die
The doctor came a-running
And a-smiling at the fun
To think a sailor lad should have a daughter or a son

The sailors when they saw the joke
They all did stand and star
The child belonged to none of them
They solemnly did swear
The captain's wife she says to him -
My dear I wish you joy
For 'tis either you or me's betrayed
The handsome cabin boy

There are two verses to the song which Kate has left out. One is the second verse:
The captain's wife she being on board, she seem-ed in great joy
To see her husband had engaged such a handsome cabin boy
And now and then she'd slip in a kiss, and she would have liked to toy
But it was the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy

The other is the last verse:
Then each man took his tot of rum, and drunk success to trade
And likewise to the cabin boy, who was neither man nor maid
Here's hopin' the wars don't rise again, our sailors to destroy
And here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin boy

  


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Song Written By:
Traditional Folk Song
Track Number:
Volume 1 - 12 		Track Length:
3:11
Billboard Chart:
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Entry Week (Position):
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