C G Am
Come all you wild young men
C F G
And a warning take by lead
C F C G
Never lead your single life astray
C G Am
Or into bad company
As I myself have done
Being all in the month of may
When I was pressed by a sea captain
A privateer to tray
To the East Indies we were bound
To plunder the region main
And itʼs many a brave and a gally and ship
We sent to a watery grave
Off a freeport we did steer
Our provisions to renew
When we did spy a bold man of war
sailing three feet toward too
And she fired in cross our bow
Heave through and donʼt refuse
Surrender now into our command
Or else your lives youʼll lose
And our decks they were splattered with blood
And our canons did loudly roar
And broadside and broadside a long time we laid
Until we could fire no more
C D G
And a thousand times I quested myself again
C G Am
For the love of me Polly on the shore
Sheʼs a tall and a slender girl
With a dark and a golden eye
And here am I am bleeding on the deck
And for us we say must lie
And farewell me family and friends
Likewise my Polly too
I would never have sailed the salt sea wide
If I had been ruled by you
And a thousand times I saw myself again
For the love of me Polly on the shore
