Angeline Publicover sailed from her home in West Dublin, Nova Scotia on December 11th, 1868, to purchase her wedding dress in Halifax. The entire journey, there and back, was to take only three days. Due to fate, however, their ship was lost in the Bahamas, and Angeline and the whole ship’s company, although saved by the crew of the “Providence” were not to return home until March 17th, 1869.
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Angeline
Young Angeline and her true love talked late one winter’s eve
Their banns announced, the date was set, they’d marry in the spring
A wedding day like none before blazed in her eyes like fire
A wedding dress from Halifax, it was her one desire
Her love opposed his Angeline’s leaving at dawn’s light
Naught would she hear, her mind was set, her wedding dress to buy
Three days from hence she would return never more to stray
But while she slept his parting words upon her mind did play
CHORUS: Angeline, don’t stray so far from me
You have no need, my love, to risk your life so needlessly
It’s you I want, my heart’s desire, to hold you close each night
Don’t sail away, dear Angeline, all for your dress o’ white
At dawn’s first light on Friday morn, the ship it did set sail
But late that night off Sambro light they ran into a gale
Three days and nights, no sail, no lights, they ran her out to sea
And Angeline, young Angeline, sailed farther from her dreams
Near three weeks out the ship was lost when heavy seas ran high
But providence proved both strong and kind for “Providence” lay by
Young Angeline and crew were saved but now were London bound
Each passing night brought dreams of home and her true love to mind
CHORUS: Angeline, don’t stray so far from me...
Three months from when she first set sail Angeline returned
She vowed no more to go to sea her wanderlust consumed
No dress in hand she made for home, there she arrived to find
Her own true love had ventured forth, his true love for to find
At each day’s end Angeline stares longingly to sea
Horizon’s edge, the billowed sails, that stole her love away
To search the whole world over, his true love for to find
And when she lays her head to rest, these words come to her mind
CHORUS: Angeline, don’t stray so far from me...
Young Angeline and her true love talked late one winter’s eve….
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