Name: Deep Blue Sea
Duration: P00H02M44S
Description: This American folk song was probably originally an English ballad or sea shanty. It has been sung most notably by Pete Seeger, but also by The Weavers and by Jon Boden, who learnt it at Forest School Camps as I did and included it in his "Folk Song A Day".

Deep Blue Sea

from Of Love and War by Roary Skaista

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This American folk song was probably originally an English ballad or sea shanty. It has been sung most notably by Pete Seeger, but also by The Weavers and by Jon Boden, who learnt it at Forest School Camps as I did and included it in his "Folk Song A Day".

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LYRICS:

Deep blue sea, Willie, deep blue sea,
Deep blue sea, Willie, deep blue sea,
Deep blue sea, Willie, deep blue sea.
It was Willie what got drownded in the deep blue sea.

Dig his grave with a silver spade,
Dig his grave with a silver spade,
Dig his grave with a silver spade.
It was Willie what got drownded in the deep blue sea.

Sew his shroud with a silken thread,
Sew his shroud with a silken thread,
Sew his shroud with a silken thread.
It was Willie what got drownded in the deep blue sea.

Lower him down on a golden chain,
Lower him down on a golden chain,
Lower him down on a golden chain,
It was Willie what got drownded in the deep blue sea.

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from Of Love and War, released August 1, 2016
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Roary Skaista is a queer folk musician based in Oxford, performing traditional folk songs as well as their own material on the themes of love, nature and diversity.

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