Steeleye Span - My Johnny Was A Shoemaker

Traditional

My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me
My Johnny was a shoemaker but now he's gone to sea
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
His jacket was a deep sky blue and curly was his hair
His jacket was a deep sky blue, it was, I do declare
For to reive the topsails up against the mast
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea

Some day he'll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew
Some day he'll be a captain bold with a sword and spyglass too
And when he has a gallant captain's sword
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
He'll come home and marry me
Traditional

My Johnny was a shoemaker and dearly he loved me
My Johnny was a shoemaker but now he's gone to sea
With pitch and tar to soil his hands
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea
His jacket was a deep sky blue and curly was his hair
His jacket was a deep sky blue, it was, I do declare
For to reive the topsails up against the mast
And to sail across the sea, stormy sea
And sail across the stormy sea

Some day he'll be a captain bold with a brave and a gallant crew
Some day he'll be a captain bold with a sword and spyglass too
And when he has a gallant captain's sword
He'll come home and marry me, marry me
He'll come home and marry me
Steeleye Span - My Johnny Was A Shoemaker

Steeleye Span - My Johnny was a Shoemaker

album: Hark! The Village Wait (1976)

My Johnny Was a Shoemaker (Steeleye Span cover) by Scott Roberts

For Theme Music group (Theme # 158: Sea Shanties)

My Johnny was a Shoemaker

Gay Woods, Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span did a great version on this old song in the seventies. The pictures are kite surfers in Tramore 29th june 08.

My Johnny Was a Shoemaker

By the Steel Lillies.

Steeleye Span

Steeleye Span