Father, father, come build me a boat
But over the wide ocean I may go
And every ship that I pass by
They all require my sailor boy
A hunting sail by half an hour
Before I met a boat, manowar
Captain, captain, come tell me true
Is my sweet William on board with you?
No, kind lady, he is not here
But he is drunk most great I fear
The other night when the wind blew high
That's when we lost your sailor boy
I sat me down, I'll write a song
I'll write it neat and I'll write it long
In every verse I'll shed a tear
In every line hold Willy dear
Sweet William was written by Clare Bowen.
Sweet William was produced by Clare Bowen.
Clare Bowen released Sweet William on Fri Apr 27 2018.
When speaking to The Boot, Clare said,
Australia was colonized about 200 years ago, …Our indigenous culture was there 80,000 years before. But so many of my ancestors came over as convicts. My ancestors, one of them was exiled to Australia for killing a sheep – somebody else’s sheep that wandered o...