Classic Poem

Whose sweetheart is very drunk?
My sweetheart is very drunk!
You do not like me,
You do not like me,
You do not like me!
I know you.

I cry always.
Far away is my country now.

Because my relations are dead,
When the steamboat leaves, I cry.

Good-bye, barkeeper! I am going now to-day.
Come! give me a full cocktail.

Ya, always I long
For my husband in California.

Very unhappy I was
With my wife,
In Victoria.
Nobody
Said good-day to us
In Victoria.

Good-bye, oh my dear Charlie!
When you take a wife,
Don't forget me.

What is Billy doing now?
He is going to the beerhouse.
The American says: Get out of the way!
He goes and cries aloud.

Kittie Apples is very unhappy
This winter.
Who will take her away?
The steamboat Hope.

I am very glad
When the steamboat comes here.
I think I shall cry
When the steamboat leaves.

A white man is now your husband, Mary.
Ha, cast me off thus!
I do not care now.
Ya aya aya.

Aya, aya!
I have seen
Sitka your country.
Never mind, if I die
Now soon.

I don't care
If you desert me.
Many pretty boys are in the town.
Soon I shall take another one.
That is not hard for me!