C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Song: The Heart of a Tar

By Charles Dibdin (1745–1814)

YET though I’ve no fortune to offer,

I’ve something to put on a par;

Come, then, and accept of my proffer,—

’Tis the kind honest heart of a tar.

Ne’er let such a trifle as this is,

Girls, be to my pleasure a bar;

You’ll be rich though ’tis only in kisses,

With the kind honest heart of a tar.

Besides, I am none of your ninnies;

The next time I come from afar,

I’ll give you a lapful of guineas,

With the kind honest heart of a tar.

Your lords, with such fine baby faces,

That strut in a garter and star,—

Have they, under their tambour and laces,

The kind honest heart of a tar?

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