Handsome Molly✓

I wish I were in London,

Or some other seaport town

Set my foot in a steamboat

And sail the ocean `round.

While sailing on the ocean,

While sailing on the sea

I'd think of handsome Molly

Wherever she might be.

Remember Handsome Molly

When you gave me your right hand?

And you said if you were to marry

Then I'd be the man.

But now you broke your promise

Go marry whom you please

While my poor heart is breaking

You're going at your ease.

She goes to church on Sunday

And she passes me on by

I can tell her mind is changin'

By the roving of her eye.

Her hair is black as a raven

Her eyes are black as a crow

Her cheeks look like linens

out in the morning glow

I wish I were in London,

Or some other seaport town

Set my foot in a steamboat

And sail the ocean `round.

While sailing on the ocean,

While sailing on the sea

I'd think of handsome Molly

Wherever she might be.