Up spoke the cabin boy the age of twelve and three
And he said to the captain, "What will you give to me
If I swim along the side of the Spanish enemy
And sink her in the lowland, lowland, low
Sink her in the lowland Sea."

"Oh I will give you silver and I will give you gold
And the hand of my daughter if you would be so bold
As to swim along the side of the Spanish enemy
And sink her in the lowland, lowland, low
Sink her in the Lowland Sea."

Then the boy he got ready and overboard jumped he
And he swam along the side of the Spanish enemy
And with his brace and auger in her side he bored holes three
And she sank beneath the lowland, lowland, low
She sank beneath the lowland Sea.

Then the boy he swam back to the cheering of the crew
But the captain would not heed him for his promise he did rue
And despite the boy's entreatings and how bitterly he sued
He left him in the lowland, lowland, low
He left him in the Lowland Sea.

The boy turned around and he swam to the port side
And up to his messmates full bitterly he cried,
"Oh messmates pull me up for I'm drifting with the tide
And I'm sinking in the lowland, lowland, low
Sinking in the Lowland Sea."

Then his messmates hauled him up and on the deck he died
And they stitched him in his hammock which was so clean and white
And they threw him overboard and he drifted with the tide
And he sank into the lowland, lowland, low
He sank into the Lowland Sea.