Ambletown

Oh, Amble is a fine town with ships about the bay
I wish with all my heart that I was only there today
I'm wishing in my heart, I was far away from here
Sitting in my parlor and talking with my dear

And it's home, dearie, home, and it's home I want to be
My topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
The oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all a-growing green in the North country
And it's home, dearie, home

A letter came today, but somehow I cannot speak
And the proud and happy tears are a-rolling down my checks
There's someone here, she says, you've been waiting for to see
With your merry hazel eyes, looking up from off my knee

And it's home, dearie, home, and it's home I want to be
My topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
The oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all a-growing green in the North country
And it's home, dearie, home

But the letter never said if we have a boy or girl
It got me so confused that my heart is all a whirl
So I'm going back to port, where I'll quickly turn around
And take the fastest ship, which to Ambletown is bound

And it's home, dearie, home, and it's home I want to be
My topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
The oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all a-growing green in the North country
And it's home, dearie, home

Oh, there's a wind that blows
And it's blowin' from the west
And of all the winds that blows
Tis the one that I like best
For it blows at our backs and shakes the pen and thee
It soon will blow us home to the North country

And it's home, dearie, home, and it's home I want to be
My topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
The oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all a-growing green in the North country
And it's home, dearie, home

And it's home I want to be
My topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
The oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
Are all a-growing green in the North country
And it's home, dearie, home
And it's home, dearie, home
And it's home, dearie, home