Molly May Lyrics - Claire Lynch

Just a lad I was of thirteen years 

When my father passed away 

And I had to take a job as a deck hand 

On the Molly May 

And the time I spent one Summer past 

Turned into fifty years 

And the sound she made as she broke the waves 

Still rings within my ears 

She was passed to me when I was twenty-three 

Cap'n Mills went 'round the bend 

He saw a forerunner on the dock one night 

And never sailed again 

Superstition be damned, I sailed her proud 

Fair maiden of the sea 

There was never another like her 

And no one for her but me 

I saw the time with me in my prime 

No man could be my equal 

Through the eye of a needle I'd sail her any day 

When I grew older, I couldn't hold her 

My courage slipped away 

So they put a young boy from Canso 

At the wheel of the Molly May 

I was there to see her sail away 

In the cold December haze 

But the Canso boy had never seen the likes 

Of the Southeast wind and waves 

At the harbor's mouth, she drifted South 

Right into Light House Rock 

And he smashed her keel and laid her low 

While I watched there from the dock 

I saw the days amid devil ways 

No man could be my equal 

Through the eye of a needle I'd sail her any day 

When I grew older, I couldn't hold her 

My courage slipped away 

So they put a young boy from Canso 

At the wheel of the Molly May 

...And I wish that I'd gone down, boys 

At the wheel of the Molly May