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T: Ship That Never Returned
C: Henry Clay Work (1865)
N: There are many variants on the tune and lyrics. This was from a transcription of the
N: original publication, at http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiNVRETURN;ttNVRETURN.html
Z: 2008 John Chambers <jc@trillian.mit.edu>
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
K: D
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w: On a sum-mer's day, when the wave was rip-pled by the soft-est gentl-est breeze, Did a
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w: ship set sail with a car-go la-den for a port be-yond the seas. There were
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w: sweet fare-wells, there were lov-ing sig-nals while a form was yet dis-cerned. Though they
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w: knew it not, 'twas a so-lemn part-ing for the ship, she ne-ver re-turned.
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w: Did she ne-ver re-turn? She ne-ver re-*turned, her fate, it is yet un-learned. Though for
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w: years and years there were fond ones wat-ching, yet the ship, she ne-ver re-turned.