4 acessos
G C
We were homeward bound one night on the deep
Am D
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
G C G
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
C D C G
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
G C
With 100 seamen he sailed away
Am D
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
G C G
To seek a passage around the pole
C D C G
Where we poor sailors do sometimes go.
G C
Through cruel hardships they vainly strove
Am D
Their ships on mountains of ice was drove
G C G
Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
C D C G
Was the only one that ever came through
G C
In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow
Am D
The fate of Franklin no man may know
G C G
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
C D C G
Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell
G C
And now my burden it gives me pain
Am D
For my Lord Franklin I'd sail the main
G C G
Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
C D C G
To say on earth that my Franklin do live.