[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