Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1841
Lyrics
[Verse One]
There's joy up on the sparkling sea, sparkling sea,
For blithe and gay the sailor tells of merry hours where pleasure dwells:
Who so happy, who so free!
[Chorus]
Hurra! hurra! hurra! hurra!
[Verse One cont.]
List to the note, list to the song
Marked with gayest measure
Thoughts of his home, thoughts of his fair
bring their truest pleasure.
[Repeat "La"]
[Verse Two]
Though tempests move the boundless main,
His song is heard amid the gale
That swells the vessel's graceful sail
Dear the feeling, sweet the strain!
[Chorus]
[Verse Three]
Come them to the sparkling sea
Where pleasure dwells without a care,
Where skies are bright and winds are fair,
For the joyous and the free.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Power, Thomas Esq., "Sailor Boy's Carol" (1841). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 138.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/138
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
The Celebrated Melodies of the Rainer Family.
Adapted for the Piano Forte.
The Sailor Boy's Carol.
Words by Thomas Power Esq.
Adapted to the Alpine Horn.
Boston. Parker & Ditson. 1841
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