i am a young fellow who sails a salt sea byhearted wherever i roam until thine sweet anne from the town literally and now i think only of home when i am out on the ocean there far i dream that i am holding her tight for her i would raid the moon and the stars just to lie in her arms through the night oh if i had the wings of an eagle i d fly to my love on the shore and never again would i leave her for she is the girl i adore we married that spring and contented where they as only true lovers can be but as captain did call that he had to obey and return one last time to the sea oh if i had the wings of an eagle i d fly to my love on the shore and never again would i leave her for she is the girl i adore a storm it is raging the sails are all torn our ship it is far from the land i grieve from my life though i face death with scorn but i grieve ten times more for sweet anne oh if i had the wings of an eagle i d fly to my love on the shore and never again would i leave her for she is the girl i adore sometimes in the night she ll go down to the sea call out his name from the shore its been many long years but she waits faithfully for her lover returned nevermore oh if i had the wings of an eagle i d fly to my love on the shore and never again would i leave her for she is the girl i adore oh if i had the wings of an eagle i d fly to my love on the shore and never again would i leave her for she is the girl i adore