[Verse 1: Doc Watson] I'm going away for to leave you, love I'm going away for a while But I'll return to you some time If I go ten thousand miles [Chorus: Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie] The storms are on the ocean The heavens may cease to be This world may lose its motion, love If I prove false to thee [Verse 2: Doc Watson] Now, who will shoe your pretty little feet And who will glove your hands And who will kiss your red rosy cheeks Till I return to land? [Chorus: Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie] The storms are on the ocean The heavens may cease to be This world may lose its motion, love If I prove falsе to thee [Verse 3: Doc Watson] Now, papa will shoe my pretty little feet And mama will glovе my hand And you can kiss my red rosy cheeks When you come back again [Chorus: Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie] The storms are on the ocean The heavens may cease to be This world may lose its motion, love If I prove false to thee [Verse 4: Doc Watson] Oh, see that lonesome turtle dove As flies from pine to pine He's mourning for his own true love Just the way I mourn for mine [Chorus: Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie] The storms are on the ocean The heavens may cease to be This world may lose its motion, love If I prove false to thee [Verse 5: Doc Watson] I'll never go back on the ocean, love I'll never go back on the sea I'll never go back on my blue-eyed girl Till she goes back on me [Chorus: Doc Watson & Jean Ritchie] The storms are on the ocean The heavens may cease to be This world may lose its motion, love If I prove false to thee