Grateful Dead - Handsome Cabin Boy lyrics

It's all a pretty female, as you may understand Her mind invent her ramblin' unto some foreign land She dressed herself in sailors clothes or so it does have been And she hidin' with the Capt'n to sailin' for a year The Capt'n's wife she'd on board she'd seen it in great joy To think her husband had engaged such a hansome cabin boy And now and then she'd slip him a kiss and she would have liked to toy But it was the Capt'n who found out the secret of the hansome cabin boy Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl The Sailors often smiled and said she looks just like a girl But 'e didn't know the Capt'n's bisquits they're colored and destroyin' The wasted swell of Pretty Nell, the hansome cabin boy It was in the Bay of Bisquane our gallant ship did plow One night one of the sailors was fearful an blowin' aroun' They tumbled from their hammocks, Whoa their sleep it did destroy They swore about the groanin' O' the hansome cabin boy "O Doctor, Dear O Doctors the cabin boy did cry Me time has come, I am undone, and I shall surely die!" The doctor come a runnin' an smilin' an havin' fun To think his sailor had latchered out a daughter or a son! The sailors went, THEY SAW THE JOKE, they all did stand and stare The child belonged to none of them, they solemnly did swear And the Capt'n's wife she says to him, "My dear, I wish you joy For it's either you or me has betrayed the hansome cabin boy" So each man took his dock of rum and 'e drank success to trade And likewise too, the cabin boy who was neither man nor mate 'ERE'S 'OPIN' THE WARS DON'T RISE AGAIN OUR SAILORS NOT DESTROYED AND 'ERE'S 'OPIN' FOR A JOLLY LOT MORE LIKE THE HANSOME CABIN BOY