Golden Vanity                                         port side, And up unto his messmates full         
(Peter Paul & Mary)                                   bitterly he cried, "Messmates, draw me up, for    
                                                      I'm drifting with the tide, And sinking in the    
There was a ship that sailed along the lowland        lowland, oh, sinking in the lowland sea."         
sea, And the name of the ship was the Golden                                                            
Vanity. And they swore she would be taken by the      Well, his messmates drew him up, but on the deck  
Spanish enemy, As she sailed along the lowland,       he died. And they stitched him in his hammock     
oh, sailed along the lowland sea.                     that was so fair and wide. And they lowered him   
                                                      overboard and he drifted with the tide, And sank  
Then up spoke our cabin boy, and boldly out           into the lowland, oh, sank into the lowland sea.  
spoke he, And he said to our captain, "What                                                             
would you give to me, If I swam along side of                                                           
the Spanish enemy, And sank her in the lowland,                                                         
oh, sank her in the lowland sea?"                                                                       
                                                                                                        
"Oh, I will give you silver, and I will give you                                                        
gold, And my own fair young daughter your bonnie                                                        
bride shall be, If you swim along side of the                                                           
Spanish enemy, And sink her in the lowland, oh,                                                         
sink her in the lowland sea."                                                                           
                                                                                                        
So the boys they made him ready, and overboard                                                          
sprang he, And he swam along side of the Spanish                                                        
enemy. And with his brace and auger in her side                                                         
he bore holes three, And sank her in the                                                                
lowland, oh, sank her in the lowland sea.                                                               
                                                                                                        
Then quickly he swam back to the cheering of the                                                        
crew, But the captain would not heed him, for                                                           
his promise he did rue, And he scorned his poor                                                         
entreatings when loudly he did sue, And left him                                                        
in the lowland, oh, left him in the lowland sea.                                                        
                                                                                                        
Then 'round-a-bout he turned, and swam to the