I do not know who composed this song but it is performed by Rick and is a popular ballad in the house concert and coffee shop crowds.<\/p>\n
Jos. Morneault<\/p>\n
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O Amble is a fine town with ships about the bay
\nIt’s fain and very fain to be there myself today
\nI’m wishing in my heart I was far away from here
\nSitting in my parlor and talking with my dear<\/p>\n
Chorus:
\nAnd it’s home, dearie, home, it’s home I want to be
\nMy topsails are hoisted and I am out to sea
\nThe oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree
\nAre all a-growing green in the North country
\nAnd it’s home, dearie, home
\n<\/i><\/b>
\nA letter came today, but somehow I cannot speak
\nAnd the proud and happy tears are a-rolling down my checks
\nThere’s someone here, she says, you’ve been waiting for to see
\nWith your merry hazel eyes, looking up from off my knee<\/p>\n
But the letter never said if we have a boy or girl
\nGot me so confused that my heart is all a whirl
\nSo I’m going back to port, where I’ll quickly turn around
\nAnd take the fastest ship, which to Ambletown is bound<\/p>\n
Well, if it be a girl, she shall wear a golden ring
\nIf it be a boy, he shall live to serve the King
\nWith his buckles and his boot and his little jacket blue
\nHe’ll walk the quarterdeck, like his daddy used to do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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