Once I was a waitin' man that lived a life of ease.
Now I am a mariner who ploughs the angry seas.
I always loved seafarin' life, I bid my love adieu
I shipped as steward and cook, me boys, aboard the Kangaroo. I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay aboard the Kangaroo "Think of me, oh think of me," she mournfully did say,
"When you are in a foreign land and I am far away.
Take this lucky tuppenny bit, it'll help you keep in mind
That lovin' trustin' faithful heart you left in tears behind." "Cheer Up, cheer up, my own true love. Don't weep so bitterly,"
She sobbed, she sighed, she choked, she cried and could not let me be
"I won't be gone for very long, 'tis but a month or two.
When that I return again of course I'll visit you." I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo Our good ship was homeward bound from many's the foreign shore
And many's the foreign present unto me love I bore.
I brought tortoises from Tenerife and toys from Timbuktu
A china rat, a Bengal cat and a Bombay cockatoo. Paid off I sought her dwellin' on the lane above the town
An ancient dame upon the line was hangin' out her gown.
"Where is me love? " "She's vanished, sir, about 6 months ago
With a smart young man that drives the van for Chaplin, Son and Co. I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo My love she is no foolish girl, her age it is two score
My love she is no spinster, she's been married twice before.
I cannot say it was her wealth that stole my heart away;
She's a washer in a laundry for one and nine a day. Here's a health to dreams of married life, to soap suds & blue
Heart's true love and patent starch and washin' soda too.
I'll go unto some foreign shore, no longer can I stay
I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
As we sailed away through Milford Bay on board the Kangaroo | 
