Canadee-I-O

It's of a fair and handsome girl
 She's all in her tender years
 She fell in love with a sailor boy
 It's true that she loved him well
 For to go off to sea with him
 Like she did not know how
 She longed to see that seaport town
 Called Canadee-i-o
 So she bargained with a young sailor boy
 All for a piece of gold
 Straightway he led her
 All down into the hold
 Saying "I'll dress you up in sailor's clothes
 Your jacket shall be blue
 You'll see that seaport town
 Called Canadee-i-o"
 Now when the other sailors heard the news
 They fell into a rage
 And with all the whole ship's company
 They were willing to engage
 "We'll tie her hands and feet me boys
 Overboard we'll throw her
 She'll never see that seaport town
 Of Canadee-i-o"
 Now when the captain he's heard the news
 He said "That ne'er shall be
 For if you drown that fair young maid
 Then hanged you shall be
 She'll stay all in sailor's clothes
 Her jacket shall be blue
 She'll see that seaport town
 Called Canadee-i-o"
 Now when they came down to Canada
 Scarcely above half a year
 She's married this bold captain
 And he called her his dear
 She's dressed in silks and satins now
 And she cuts a gallant show
 She's the finest of the ladies
 Down in Canadee-i-o
 Come all you fair and tender girls
 Wheresoever you may be
 I'd have you follow your own true love
 When he goes out on the sea
 For if the sailors prove false to you
 Well the captain he might prove true
 To see the honour that I have gained
 By the wearing of the blue