Once I had a sweetheart and now I have none
Once I had a sweetheart and now I have none
He’s gone and left me
He’s gone and left me
Gone and left me in sorrow to mourn

Last night in sweet slumber I dreamed I did see
Last night in sweet slumber I dreamed I did see
My own darling jewel sat
smiling by me
My own darling jewel sat smiling by me

But when I awakened I found it not so
But when I awakened I found it not so
My eyes like some fountain with
tears overflowed
Am Em A Em (Indian Sitar-solo)
Eyes like some fountain with tears overflowed

I’ll venture through England, through France and through Spain
I’ll venture through England, through France and through Spain
My life I’ll venture on
watery main
My life I’ll venture on watery main

I’ll set sail of silver and steer toward the sun
I’ll set sail of silver and steer toward the sun
And my false love will weep,
my false love will weep
False love will weep for me after I’m gone
After I’m gone, After I’m gone, After I’m gone…

With a hundred seamen he sailed away
O’er frozen oceans in the month of May
To seek a passage around the pole
Where we poor seamen must sometimes go

Through cruel hardships they mainly strove
Their ship on mountains of ice was drove
Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
Was the only one that ever came through

In Baffin’s Bay where the whale fishes blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin alone with his sailors does dwell

And now my body it gives me pain
For my long lost Franklin I would cross the main
Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
To know on earth that my Franklin does live

(Verse)
For when your thyme is past and gone
He’ll care no more for you
And in the [C/E]place your time was waste
Will spread all o’er with rue…
Will spread all o’er with rue

(Verse)
A woman is a branchy tree
And man’s a clinging vine
And from her [C/E]branches carelessly
He’ll take what he can find..
He’ll take what he can find
He’ll take what he can find