10,000 Miles Away Songtext
von The Skullduggers

Sing, "Ho!" For a brave and a gallant ship
And a fast and a favoring breeze
With a bully good crew and a captain too
To carry me over the seas
To carry me over the seas, boys
To my true love far away
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away

So blow ye winds and blow
And a roving I will go
I'll stay no more on this old shore
And hear that fiddler play
I′m off on a bounding main
And I won't be back again
I'm taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away


Oh, my own true love was beautiful
My own true love was young
She had diamonds in her eyes, my friends
And silvery was her tongue
Silvery was her tongue, oh, yes
And the big ship left the bay
Fair well said she, be good to me Yuri
Ten thousand miles away

So blow ye winds and blow
And a roving I will go
I′ll stay no more on this old shore
And hear that fiddler play
I′m off on a bounding main
And I won't be back again
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away

It's been at least a hundred days
Since I last saw me Meg
She had a government band around one hand
And another one ′round her leg
And another one 'round her leg, me boys
And the big ship left the bay
I swore that I′d be true to her
Ten thousand miles away


So blow ye winds and blow
And a roving I will go
I'll stay no more on this old shore
And hear that fiddler play
I'm off on a bounding main
And I won′t be back again
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away

Well, I wish I was a bosun bold
Or a sailor without fear
I'd build me a boat and away I′d float
And straight to me true love steer
And straight to me true love steer, me boys
Where the dancing dolphins play
Where the whales and sharks are having their larks
Ten thousand miles away

So blow ye winds and blow
And a roving I will go
I'll stay no more on this old shore
And hear that fiddler play
I′m off on a bounding main
And I won't be back again
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away

So blow ye winds and blow
And a roving I will go
I'll stay no more on this old shore
And hear that fiddler play
I'm off on a bounding main
And I won′t be back again
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away

Well, the sun will shine through the London fog
Or the water running clear
Or the ocean brine turn into wine
Or I'll forget me beer
Or I′ll forget me beer, me boys
On the landlord's quarter-pay
But I′ll won't forget me own true love
Ten thousand miles away

So blow ye winds and blow
And a roving I will go
I′ll stay no more on this old shore
And hear that fiddler play
I'm off on a bounding main
And I won't be back again
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away

I′m off on a bounding main (off on a bounding main)
And I won't be back again
I′m taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away
I'm taking a trip on a government ship
Ten thousand miles away