Key: Em ♫ Intro: Em C Am C Em C Bm Em ♫ Verse 1: Em C Am C Upon one summer's morning I carefully did stray Em C Am Bm Em Down by the Walls of Wapping, where I met a sailor gay Em C Am C Conversing with a bouncing lass, who seemed to be in pain Em C Am Bm Em Saying William, when you go I fear you will never return again
♫ Chorus: Em C My heart is pierced by Cupid Am C I disdain all glittering gold Em C There is nothing can console me Am Bm Em But my jolly sailor bold ♫ Verse 2: Em C Am C His hair it hangs in ringlets, his eyes as black as coal Em C Am Bm Em My happiness attend him wherever he may go Em C Am C From Tower Hill to Blackwall I'll wander, weep and moan Em C Am Bm Em All for my jolly sailor, until he sails home ♫ Chorus: Em C My heart is pierced by Cupid Am C I disdain all glittering gold Em C There is nothing can console me Am Bm Em But my jolly sailor bold ♫ Verse 3: Em C Am C My name it is Maria, a merchant's daughter fair Em C Am Bm Em And I have left my parents and three thousand pounds a year Em C Am C Come all you pretty fair maids, whoever you may be Em C Am Bm Em Who love a jolly sailor that ploughs the raging sea Em C Am C While up aloft in storm, from me his absence mourn Em C Am Bm Em And firmly pray, arrive the day, he's never more to roam ♫ Chorus: Em C My heart is pierced by Cupid Am C I disdain all glittering gold Em C There is nothing can console me Am Bm Em But my jolly sailor bold ♫ Outro: Em C Am C Em C Bm Em