I'll not be as good as my word
And neither will I take you in on board,
Though you've sunk her in the lowly, lonesome water
Though you've sunk her in the lonesome sea.
If it were not for the love I have for your men,
I'd do unto you just as I've done unto them;
I'd sink you in the lonely, lonesome water
I'd sink you in the lonesome sea.
He bowed down on his breast and down sunk he
A-bidding farewell to the Golden Willow Tree,
And he sunk in the lonely, lonesome water,
And he sunk in the lonesome sea.