… Pretty little baby (ya-ya)

Pretty little baby (ya-ya)

… Pretty little baby, you say that maybe

You'll be thinkin' of me, and try to love me

Pretty little baby, I'm hoping that you do

Ooh-ooh-ooh, yeah

You can ask the flowers, I sit for hours

Tellin' all the bluebirds, the bill and coo birds

Pretty little baby, I'm so in love with you

Ooh-ooh-ooh

… Now is just the time, while both of us are young

Puppy love must have its day

Don't you know it's much more fun to love

While the heart is young and gay?

… Meet me at the car hop or at the pop shop

Meet me in the moonlight or in the daylight

Pretty little baby, I'm so in love with you (ah-ah)

… Now is just the time, while both of us are young

Puppy love must have its day

Don't you know it's much more fun to love

While the heart is young and gay?

… Meet me at the car hop or at the pop shop

Meet me in the moonlight or in the daylight

Pretty little baby, I'm so in love with you

Ooh-ooh-ooh

… Pretty little baby

I said, pretty little baby

Oh, now pretty little baby

It's time to come away, my darling pretty

It's time to come away on the changing tide

Time to come away, darling pretty

And I need you darling by my side

Heal me with a smile, darling pretty

Heal me with a smile and a heart of gold

Carry me awhile, my darling pretty

Heal my aching heart and soul

Just like a castaway

Lost upon an endless sea

I saw you far away

Come to rescue me

Cast away the chains, darling pretty

Cast away the chains away behind

Take away my pain, my darling pretty

And the chains that once were yours and mine

There will come a day, darling pretty

There will come a day when hearts can fly

Love will find a way, my darling pretty

Find a heaven for you and I

Love will find a way, my darling pretty

Find a heaven for you and I

They had 'er last supper the day of the beaching

She's a dead ship sailin', skeleton crew

The galley is empty, the stove pots are cloolin'

With what's left of the stew?

The time is approachin', the captain moves over

The hangman steps in to do what he's paid for

With the wind and the tide she goes proud ahead, steamin'

And he drives 'er hard into the shore

So far from the Clyde

Together we'd ride, we did ride

As if to a wave from her bows to her rudder

Bravely she rises to meet with the land

Under their feet, they all feel her keel shudder

The shallow sea washes their hands

Later the captain shakes hands with the hangman

He climbs slowly down to the oily wet ground

Goes back to the car that has come here to take him

Through the graveyard and back to the town

So far from the Clyde

Together we'd ride, we did ride

They pull out her cables and hack off her hatches

Too poor to be wasteful with pity or time

They swarm on her carcass with torches and axes

Like a whale on the bloody shoreline

Stripped off her pillars her stays and her stanchions

When there's only her bones on the wet poison land

Steel ropes will drag her with winches and engines

'Til there's only a stain on the sand

So far from the Clyde

Together we'd ride, we did ride

So far from the Clyde

Together we'd ride, we did ride