The Lover's Songster/Tell her I love her

by William Shield

Tell her I love her.

TELL her I love her while the clouds drop rain,
Or while there's water in the pathly main;
Tell her I love her till this life be o'er,
And then my ghost shall visit this sweet shore:
Tell her I only ask she'll think on me—
I'll love her while there's salt within the sea:
Tell her all this; tell it, tell it o'er and o'er,
I'll love her while there's salt within the sea:
Tell her all this; tell it o'er and o'er;
The anchor's weigh'd, or I would tell her more.