Ted the Penguin

My Love Is on the Ocean

This song is usually entitled, “Adieu to Cold Weather,” and can be dated back to an early English broadside.

My love is on the ocean;
I think I’ll let him swim,
For in my heart I feel it,
I’m just as good as him;
His love is in his pocket’
It’s a little in his heart;
The way he divides it,
He gives each girl a part.

REFRAIN
Adieu to cold weather,
Away with the frost;
I’ll sing and be as merry
For the old beau that I lost;
I’ll sing and be as merry
As the nightingale in the tree;
There’s rest for the weary
Since he went back on me.

Many a pleasant evening
Together we have walked;
Many a pleasant evening
Together we have talked;
His talk was always pleasant;
His watch was always slow;
And many a time I’ve told him
To take his hat and go.

REFRAIN

The last time I met him
Was in a shady grove;
He smiled on me so sweetly,
He offered me a rose
Thinking I’d accept it;
I quickly let him see
That I could get another
That was just as good as he.

REFRAIN

Via Alice Ridgeway Tucker, Davidsonville, MD