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I Saw Three Ships

Traditional:

This is a popular song at the Christmas holiday and often sung by single people or in groups.

courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com


I saw three ships come sailing in  

On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day

I saw three ships come sailing in  

On Christmas Day in the morning


And what was in those ships all three?

Christmas Day, on Christmas Day


And what was in those ships all three?

On Christmas Day in the morning


The Virgin Mary and Christ were there

On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day


The Virgin Mary and Christ were there

On Christmas Day in the morning



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.