Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
As you come across that walk ashore
In your suit of blue,
My love for you will never change
My heart is always true,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you.
Just a boy of 17
He said farewell to home,
To sail across the mighty sea
So far away to roam,
She said that she would wait for him
'Til he returned again,
As the anchor chain came up and down
He heard this soft refrain
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
As you come across that walk ashore
In your suit of blue,
My love for you will never change
My heart is always true,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you.
Around the world he traveled
Beneath the ensign high,
He saw the South Sea's flying fish
The starless arctic sky,
But in his heart a-pining
For someone so far away,
As the bow wave split the cool night air
He heard the lee wind say:
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
As you come across that walk ashore
In your suit of blue,
My love for you will never change
My heart is always true,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you.
Home again and the good times came
Her arms were open wide,
He held her safely close to him
And she walked by his side,
But dark clouds soon filled up the sky
The sea, it beckoned on,
'Til once again a sad farewell
A young girl stands alone.
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
As you come across that walk ashore
In your suit of blue,
My love for you will never change
My heart is always true,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you.
But that's a long, long time ago
Now there's a picture in a frame,
There's tears shed every Christmas
For the memories still the same,
And if the young man in the photograph
Could hear what she has to say,
He'd likely join her in the words
She sings them every day.
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
As you come across that walk ashore
In your suit of blue,
My love for you will never change
My heart is always true,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you.
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
As you come across that walk ashore
In your suit of blue,
My love for you will never change
My heart is always true,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you,
Down by the dockyard wall
I will wait for you.