Many years so many years
We’ve been sailing on the seas
Those ships distant lands
Went through storms and laid and laid so still

Graveyards dark stars
Some lonely princess far away
Distant islands silent harbours
Boys and girls and girls and boys they danced

We will take a chance to
Send you into a trance to
Flatter all these ladies
Braver than the rest
 [bad word] [bad word] in
Great delights or wasted wasted time
Sometimes dark and sometimes light 
Very cold but so warm inside

Many years so many years
We’ve been sailing on the seas
Those ships distant lands
Went through storms and laid and laid so still

We will take a chance to
Send you into a trance to
Flatter all these ladies
Braver than the rest