Canadee-i-o

It's of a fair and handsome girl

She's all in her tender years

She fell in love with a sailor boy

And it's true she loved him well

For to go off to sea with him like she did not know how

She longed to see that seaport town

Called Canadee-I-o

So she bargained with a young sailor boy

Sold for a piece of gold

Straightway he led her down

All down into the hold

Saying "I'll dress you up in sailor's clothes,

Your jacket shall be blue, and you'll see that

Sea-port town called Canadee-I-o."

Now when the other sailors heard the news

They fell into a rage

And with their whole ship's company

They were willing to engage

Sayin' "We'll bind her hands and feet me boys,

And overboard we'll throw her,

She'll never see that seaport town

Called Canadee-I-o."

Now when the Captain he's heard the news

He too fell in a rage

And with his whole ship's company

He was ready to engage

Saying "She'll stay all in Sailor's clothes,

Her collar shall be blue,

And she'll see that seaport town

Called Canadee-I-o."

When they sailed down to Canada

Scare above half a year

She's married this bold Captain who called her his dear

She's dressed in silks and satins now

And she cuts a gallant shawl

She's the finest of the ladies down

In Canadee-I-o

So come all you fair and tender girls

Wheresoever you may be

I'd have you to follow your own true love

When he goes out on the sea

For if the sailors they prove false to you

The Captain he might prove true

You see the honor I have gained from

The wearing of the blue