Jean Louis Dominic Pierre Bouchon True to the breed that bore him Answered the cal 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
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