Jake Newton: lyrics

Ballad of Johnny Troy
A merchant marine and his young wife to be are stretched out between ocean and land,
And the terrors and wars of the ships and the shores only set their poor minds up to thinking

Dear Johnny No, I forbid you to go, my heart cannot bear this break
My Girl my Marie, it’s the call of the sea but my hearts beating for you alone

“But I’ll see you in swells of seafoam” he said, I’ll mark you on rocks on the shore
The mermaids will sing, and in my ear you’ll ring back from your tiny green island moor”

"Dear John, Dear John, I can’t wait for long My hearts restless when I am alone
You go seems forever, but love’s dear sweet tether will break in the height of this storm."


"My girl my Marie, it’s the call of the sea but my heart’s beating for you alone
Now I’m only sailing, so don’t let the rain into your mind to cloud up the score

Now I’ll see you in swells of seafoam, he said I’ll mark you on rocks on the shore
The mermaids will sing, and in my ear you’ll ring back from your tiny green Island moor"



Dear sweet girl marie, carried down to the sea, the pine box of her Johnny Troy
She walked as she wept, but in body she kept a reminder dear john’s baby boy

She said, "I’ll see you in swells of seafoam, I’ll mark you on rocks on the shore
The mermaids will sing, and in my ear you’ll ring back from your tiny green Island moor,"


Now let this be learning to girls who go flirting with sailors, You’ve been forewarned
Their hearts in the sea, and that’s all they can be, either learn that
Or give up the ghost
Give up the ghost