Sail On Songtext
von The Merry Wives of Windsor

My lover had left me to sail the seven seas
And to his love would stay true
Alone I did conspire to dress in man′s attire
And to join with his pirate crew

Sail on, me boys, sail on
For our journey is long
Full well we know our fate
For the bloody gallows wait
Sail on, me boys, sail on

One evening in a brawl I beat the crew men all
The quartermaster felt my might
I showed my lover then I was the best of all his men
And together we would rule the night

Sail on, me boys, sail on
For our journey is long
Full well we know our fate
For the bloody gallows wait
Sail on, me boys, sail on


Hand in hand we rode the tide, we pillaged far and wide
A Jolly Roger feared by all
The captain and his wife we led the pirate life
'Till the Navy did pledge our fall

Sail on, me boys, sail on
For our journey is long
Full well we know our fate
For the bloody gallows wait
Sail on, me boys, sail on

At dawn the cannons roared, our ships they did board
Our swords drawn, we fought without hope
And so the day was lost, and our freedom was the cost
′Till the hangman prepared the bloody rope

Sail on, me boys, sail on
For our journey is long
Full well we know our fate
For the bloody gallows wait
Sail on, me boys, sail on

My love met his doom, but the child within my womb
Forced the fools to spare my life
But those bastards I do warn, though my child is unborn
She will avenge her family's strife!


Sail on, me boys, sail on
For our journey is long
Full well we know our fate
For the bloody gallows wait
Sail on, me boys, sail on

Sail on, me boys, sail on
For our journey is long
Full well we know our fate
For the bloody gallows wait
Sail on, me boys, sail on
Sail on, me boys, sail on
Sail on, me boys, sail on