Katie, I'm Bound for the Sea

DESCRIPTION: A sailor leaves his sweetheart and promises "When I'm sleeping in my watch down below I'll wander back to Katie in my dreams." Finally, "we have reached our distant port." Sailors "drink a health to the girl they adore"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1951 (MUNFLA-Leach)
KEYWORDS: love parting separation travel sea ship sailor
FOUND IN: Canada(Newf)
Roud #30137
RECORDINGS:
Albert DeWitt, "Katie, I'm Bound for the Sea" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
Jim Rice, "Katie, I'm Bound for the Sea" (on MUNFLA-Leach)
NOTES [6 words]: Dewitt only has the first verse. - BS
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