Lord Franklin

It was homeward bound one night on the deep
 Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
 I dreamt a dream and I thought it true
 Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
 As I was wandering on some foreign shore
 I heard a lady and she did deplore
 She wept aloud and to me did say
 Oh, my loving husband, he's so long away
 With a hundred seamen he sailed away
 To the frozen ocean in the month of May
 To seek a passage around the pole
 Where these poor sailors do sometimes go
 They sailed West and they sailed East
 Their ship on oceans of ice did freeze
 Only the Eskimo in his skin canoe
 Was the only one that ever came through
 In Baffin Bay where the whale fishes blow
 The fate of Franklin no man may know
 The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
 Franklin alone with his sailors do dwell
 And now my burden it gives me pain
 For my long lost Franklin I would cross the main
 Ten thousand pounds would I freely give
 To say on earth that my Franklin does live
 To say on earth that my Franklin does live