Key: D major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Works Homeward
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Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep.
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I dreamed a dream and I thought it true,
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Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.
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I heard a lady weep and implore
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She wept aloud and she seemed to say,
At last that my husband
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is so long away
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To the frozen ocean in the month of May
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To seek that passage around the pond
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Where we poor seamen do sometimes
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roam
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Through cruel hardships
Their ship on mountains
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Where the Eskimo in his skin -canoe
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Was the only one that ever come through
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Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
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To say on earth that my Franklin do live
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In Baffings Bay, where the whale fish blow
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The fate of Franklin no man may know
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The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
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Lord Franklin, along with his sailors, do dwell
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