While cruisin' round Yarmouth
one day for a spree
I met a fair damsel, the wind blowin' free
I'm a fast -goin' clipper,
my kind sir said she
I'm ready for cargo,
my hold is quite free
Singing
Fowl -der -owl -la -dee and
Fowl -der -owl -die
Fowl -der -owl -la -dee and
Fowl -der -owl -die
What country she come from
I could not tell which
By her appearance I
thought she was Dutch
Her flag wore its colours,
her mast -head was low
She was round at the quarter
and bluff in the bow
Singin'
Fowl -de -ral -la -dee,
I'd fowl -de -ral -day
Fowl -de -ral -la -dee, I'd fowl -de -ral -day
I gave her the rope and I took her in tow
From yard arm to yard
arm a -towin' we go
We towed on together till
we came to the head
We both towed together
through Trafalgaray Bay
And fowled her I'll laddie,
I'd fowled her I'll die,
Fowled her I'll laddie,
I'd fowled her I'll die.
She took me upstairs on
her top so she lured,
In a neat little parlour
she soon had me moored.
She laid in her foresoles her
staysoles and all,
With her lily -white hand
on my reef -dagle fall.
Singin' falder, I'll laddie,
I'd falder, I'll die
Falder, I'll laddie, I'd falder, I'll die
I said, pretty fair maid,
it's time to give o 'er
For Twig's wind and water,
you've run me ashore
Me shot -locker's empty
and powder's all spent
I can't fire a shot for it's
choked at the vent
Singin'
Fowl -de -ral -la -dee,
I'd fowl -de -ral -day
Fowl -de -ral -la -dee,
I'd fowl -de -ral -day
Here's Lock -do,
the girl with the black curly locks
Here's Lock -do, the girl who ran
Jack on the rocks
Here's Lock -do,
the doctor who eased all his pain
He squared his main yards,
he's a -cruisin' again
I'm singing fal -der -al -da -dee -ay,
fal -der -al -day
Fal -der -al -da -dee -ay,
fal -der -al -day