Bye Bye Roseanna
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com
The boats are sailing around the bend
Bye-bye, my Roseanna
All loaded down with fishermen
I won't be home tomorrow.
Chorus sung after each verse:
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, my Roseanna.
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, I won't be home tomorrow
A dollar a day's a sailors pay
Bye-bye, my Roseanna.
It´s easy come, easy slip away
I won't be home tomorrow
Oh Roseann, sweet Roseann
Bye-bye, my Roseanna.
I'm going away, but not to stay
I won't be home tomorrow.
We're sailing North, across the bay
Bye-bye, my Roseanna
We won't be back for many a day
I won't be home tomorrow
Oh Roseann, my Roseann
Bye-bye, my Roseanna
Oh Roseann, sweet Roseann
I won't be home tomorrow
The author of this website has put a lot of time and effort into gathering the greatest collection of sea shanties for the world to enjoy - There are songs that have been to sung to a job of work at sea for many, many years and collecting them has been a great endeavour. - Roger Chartier has made the effort out of his own interest and the requests that he has gotten to do this work from fellow musicians who wanted a good source of sea shanties to draw on and learn from. He has been told that for this effort he is a remarkable man.
