Luyện nghe bài hát The Handsome Cabin Boy

It's of a female
As you may understand.
Her mind being bent for
Unto foreign land,
She dressed in sailor's clothes,
Or so it appear,
And she with a captain
To him for a year.

[The captain's wife she on board,
She in great joy
To the captain had engaged
a handsome cabin boy,
That now and then slip him a kiss,
And she'd liked to toy,
But 'twas the found out the secret
Of the cabin boy.]

Her cheeks were like roses
And her rolled in a curl.
The sailors smiled and said
He looked just a girl.
But eating of the biscuit
Her did destroy,
And the did swell of pretty Nell,
The cabin boy.

It was in the bay of
Our gallant did plow.
One among the sailors
Was a flurry and row.*
They tumbled from their
For sleep it did destroy,
And they sworn about the
Of the handsome boy.

"Oh doctor, dear, oh doctor,"
The boy did cry.
"My has come, I am undone,
And I will die."
The doctor come
And at the fun.
To a sailor lad should have
A or a son.

The sailors they saw the joke
all did stand and stare.
The child to none of them,
solemnly did swear.
The captain's wife, she to him,
"My dear, I you joy,
For either you or me's betrayed
The cabin boy!"

[Now sailors, your tot of rum
And drink to trade,
And to the cabin boy
That was man nor maid.
Here's hoping the wars rise again
Our to destroy,
And here's hoping for a jolly lot