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O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, / Of a ship that goes a-sailing on the pond; / And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about; / But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out / How to send my vessel sailing on beyond.
For I mean to grow as little as the dolly at the helm, / And the dolly I intend to come alive; / And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go, / It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow / And the vessel goes a divie-divie dive.
O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds, / And you'll hear the water singing at the prow; / For beside the dolly sailor, I'm to voyage and explore, / To land upon the island where no dolly was before, / And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.