G C
It was homeward bound one night on the deep,
Am7
D G
Swinging in my hammock, I fell asleep.
C G
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true,
Am7
D
Concerning Franklin,
C G
And his gallant crew.
G C
With a hundred sailors he sailed away
Am7
D G
The frozen ocean in the month of may
C G
To seek a passage around the pole
Am7
D
Where we poor sailors ,
C G
sometimes have to go.
G C
Through cruel hardships they vainly strove;
Am7
D G
Their ship on mountains of ice was drove;
C G
Only the Indian with his skin canoe,
Am7
D
Was the only one,
C G
that ever came through.
G C
In Baffin bay where the whale-fish blow
Am7
D G
The fate of Franklin, no man may know;
C G
The fate of Franklin, no tongue may tell,
Am7
D
Where Franklin along,
C G
with his sailors does dwell.
G C
And now my burden, it brings me pain;
Am7
D G
For my long, lost Franklin I would cross the main;
C G
Ten thousand guineas I would freely give
Am7
D
To say on Earth,
C G
that my Franklin does live..
