(New words and music by YarrowStookeyTravers)

There was a ship that sailed all on the lowland sea

And the name of the ship was the Golden Vanity

And we feared she would be taken by the Spanish enemy

As she sailed upon the lowland, lowland, lowland

Sailed upon the lowland sea.



Then up spoke our cabinboy and boldly out spoke he

And he said to our captain "What will you give to me

If I swim along the side of the Spanish enemy

And I sink her in the lowland sea?"



"Oh I will give you silver and I will give you gold

And my own fair daughter your bonny bride shall be

If you'll swim along the side of the Spanish enemy

And you'll sink her in the lowland, lowland, lowland

Sink her in the lowland sea.



Then the boy he made him ready and overboard sprang he

And he swam to the side of the Spanish enemy

With his brace and auger in her side he bored holes three

And sank he her in the lowland sea.



Then quickly he swam back to the cheering of the crew

But the captain would not heed him, his promise he did rue

And he scorned his poor entreatings when loudly he did sue

And left him in the lowland,lowland, lowland

Left him in the lowland sea.



Then the boy he turned round and he swam to the port side

And up to his messmates full bitterly he cried

"O messmates, draw me up, for I'm drifting with the tide

And I'm sinking in the lowland, lowland, lowland

Sinking in the lowland sea."



Then his messmates drew him up, but on the deck he died

And they stitched him in a hammock which was so fair and white

And they low'red him overboard, and he drifted with the tide

And he sank into the lowland, lowland, lowland

Sank into the lowland sea.



There was a ship that sailed