Lord Franklin Lyrics

'Twas homeward bound one night on the deep

Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep

I dreamed a dream and I thought it true

Concerning Franklin, and his gallant crew

With a hundred seamen he sailed away

To the frozen ocean in the month of May

To seek a passage around the pole

Where we poor sailors, do sometimes go

Through cruel hardships they mainly strove

Their ships on mountains of ice was drove

Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe

Was the only one, that ever came through

In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow

The fate of Franklin no man may know

The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell

Where Lord Franklin, and his sailors do dwell

And now my burden it brings me pain

For my Lord Franklin I'd cross the main

Ten thousand pounds would I freely give

To know on earth, that my Franklin does live