Chorus:

And it's home boys, home!

Home I'd like to be, home for a while, in me own country

Where the oak and the ash and the bonny elm tree

Are all a-growin' green in me own country

There was an apprentice lived in Strawberry lane

Loved by her master and her mistress the same

Until I a sailor lad came sailing o'er the sea

And that was the beginnin' of her misery

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The maid being innocent she thought it was no harm

To go into bed for to keep her back warm

He hugged her and he kissed her and he called her his dear

Said,