Matelot

Jean Louis Dominic Pierre Bouchon

True to the breed that bore him

Answered the call

That held in thrall

His father's heart before him

Jean Louis Dominic sailed away

Further than love could find him

Yet in the night

He heard a light

And gentle voice behind him say:

'Matelot Matelot

Where you go my heart goes with you

Matelot Matelot

When you go down to the sea

As you gaze from afar

On the evening star

Wherever you may roam

You will remember the light

Through the winter night

That guides you safely home

Though you find womankind to be frail

One love cannot fail my son

Till our days are done

Matelot Matelot

Where you go my thoughts go with you

Matelot Matelot

When you go down to the sea

Charles Louis Dominique Pierre Buchard

Journeyed the wide world over

Lips that he kissed could not resist

This loving roving rover

Jean Louis Dominique right or wrong

Ever pursued a new love

Till in his brain there beat a strain

He knew to be his true love song

Matelot Matelot

Where you go my heart goes with you

Matelot Matelot

When you go down to the sea

For a year and a day

You may sail away

And have no thought of me

Yet through the wind and the spray

You will hear me say

No love was ever free

You will sigh when horizons are clear

Something that is dear to me

Cannot let me be

Matelot Matelot

Where you go my heart goes with you

Matelot Matelot

When you go down to the sea