Once I was a sailor bold
Who plowed the Raging Main
I sailed from Cork to Liverpool
To 'Frisco and to Spain

But then I tired of wandering
Upon the angry sea
And I recalled me mother's words
She always said to me
[?]
"Come home to Bantry Bay,"
She cried, a hundred times or more
"Come home before you lose your way
Upon some foreign shore."
So, to her, I did listen
And I bid the sea adieu
And I thought no more of sailing ships
Likewise the ocean blue

And I nevermore will leave the shore
I nevermore will stray
I'll stay at home, no more to roam
Away from Bantry Bay

And then I was a rover bold
All on the Emerald Isle
Singing for me supper
And still searching all the while
And piece of mind I never found
While I was rambling free
So I headed home back to the farm
Me father left to me
And I nevermore will leave the shore
I nevermore will stray
I'll stay at home, no more to roam
Away from Bantry Bay

Oh the Bantry girls, how they beguile
With grace and beauty rare
No matter where I've wandered, boys
There's none that can compare
Was there I met a Colleen fair
Upon the market day
And ever since I spied her, sure
She stole me heart away

And I nevermore will leave the shore
I nevermore will stray
I'll stay at home, no more to roam
Away from Bantry Bay

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Now I am a [?] bold
Content as I can be
With a warm and cozy cottage
And a wife and children three
At night around the fireside
I tell my stories through
Of sailormen and [?] [?]
That Daddy used to do
And I nevermore will leave the shore
I nevermore will stray
I'll stay at home, no more to roam
Away from Bantry Bay

And I nevermore will leave the shore
I nevermore will stray
I'll stay at home, no more to roam
Away from Bantry Bay