AmSing a song of madeleine-mary a tune that all can carry
AmBurly says if we don’t sing then we won’t have anything
AmAll the boys on ship set sail and the mate was madeleine-mary
AmWhen her eyes did fill with tears.
AmIt was extraordinary.
It was extraordinary AmFor we none of us could see it
For she kept herself kept below AmAnd all her feelings private
AmSing a song of madeleine-mary a tune that all can carry
AmBurly says if we don’t sing then we won’t have anything
AmNone of us could get a glimpse but all of us did want it
AmAt night, above our sleeping heads our sleeping dreams were haunted
AmSo now my kids you’d like to hear of one who reached and got her
AmWell, if there was, well, i think he sleeps beneath the water
AmSing a song of madeleine-mary a tune that all can carry
AmBurly says if we don’t sing then we won’t have anything