Johnny Todd

(Traditional)

1. Johnny Todd he took a notion

    For to sail the ocean wide

    There he left his true love a’weeping

    Waiting by the Liverpool tide

2. For a week she wept full sorely

    Wrung her hands and tore her hair

    ‘Till she met with another sailor

    Walking on the Liverpool sands

3. Oh fair maid why are you weeping

    For your Johnny gone to sea

    If you’ll wed with me tomorrow

    I will kind and constant be

4. I will buy you sheets and blankets

    I’ll buy you a wedding ring

    You shall have a gilded cradle

    For to rock your baby in

5. Johnny Todd came home from sailing

    Far across the ocean wide

    There he found his fair and false one

    Was another sailor’s bride

6. So all you lads who go a sailing

    For to fight the foreign foe

    Never leave your love like Johnny

    Marry her before you go

    Marry her before you go!