Lyrics
(English folk song)
I saw a ship a sailing, a sailing on the sea,
And oh, it was all laden with pretty things for thee.
There were comfits in the cabin and apples in the hold,
And the spreading sails were made of silk
And the masts were made of gold.
See also
- Country: England
- Subject: sailing
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Melody: ascending major pentascale / tonic triad
- Meter: 6/8
- Rhythm:
- Scale: major
- Source: The children’s own book; folk songs for harmonization, transposition, sight-singing and immediate expression at the keyboard,Elizabeth Newman, 1925
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