"My Jolly Sailor Bold" is a traditional sailor's song, it is sung from the perspective of a woman that is in love with a sailor. While not originally villainous the song was later used in the Disney 2011 live action film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Being sung by the mermaidTamara to seduce Blackbeard's crew.
Upon one summer's morning
I carefully did stray
Down by the Walls of Wapping
Where I met a sailor gay
Conversing with a young lass
Who seem'd to be in pain
Saying, William, when you go
I fear you'll ne'er return again
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
His hair it hangs in ringlets
His eyes as black as coal
My happiness attend him
Wherever he may go
From Tower Hill to Blackwall
I'll wander, weep and moan
All for my jolly sailor
Until he sails home
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
My father is a merchant
The truth I now will tell
And in great London City
In opulence doth dwell
His fortune doth exceed
300,000 gold
And he frowns upon his daughter
Who loves a sailor bold
A fig for his riches
His merchandise and gold
True love has grafted my heart
Give me my sailor bold
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
Should he return in pov'rty
From o'er the ocean far
To my tender bosom
I'll press my jolly tar
My sailor is as smiling
As the pleasant month of May
And often we have wandered
Through Ratcliffe Highway
Many a pretty blooming
Young girl we did behold
Reclining on the bosom
Of her jolly sailor bold
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
My name it is Maria
A merchant's daughter fair
And I have left my parents
And three thousand pounds a year
Come all you pretty fair maids
Whoever you may be
Who love a jolly sailor
That plows the raging sea
While up aloft in storm
From me his absence mourn
And firmly pray arrive the day
He's never more to roam
My heart is pierced by Cupid
I disdain all glittering gold
There is nothing can console me
But my jolly sailor bold
Other Appearances[]
The song appeared in one of the incarnations of the nighttime show World of Color at the Disney theme park Disney California Adventure.
The song appeared in the Magic Kingdom version of the ride Pirates of the Caribbean during the mermaid scene added to the ride in 2011 and retired in 2017
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Mermaid Scene - My Jolly Sailor Bold Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides
Film
Mermaids added to Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Magic Kingdom Walt Disney World
Ride
New Pirates of the Caribbean 4 sequence in World of Color at Disney California Adventure
World of Color
Covers[]
My Jolly Sailor Bold
Acapella Onion
My Jolly Sailor Bold-0
Christine Slagman
My Jolly Sailor Bold-1
The Hollywood Singers + Orchestra
My Jolly Sailor Bold-2
The Los Angeles Singers & Orchestra
My Jolly Sailor Bold - Ashley Serena
Ashley Serena
My Jolly Sailor Bold but it's gay -- Cover by Reinaeiry
Reinaeiry
My Jolly Sailor Bold - Rachel Hardy & Colm McGuinness (Pirates of the Caribbean- On Stranger Tides)
Rachel Hardy & Colm McGuinness
My Jolly Sailor Bold - Pirates of the Caribbean- On Stranger Tides ( Cover by I bare April )
I bare April
Jolly Sailor Bold
Amy Shull
Jolly Sailor Bold — A Mermaid Music Video
Ginny Di
My Jolly Sailor Bold-3
Moka Loka
Jolly Sailor Bold-2
Alchemia
Merman tales - My jolly Sailor bold
Steev Lemercier
Trivia[]
The song does not appear in the film's soundtrack.