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 seventeen
He said farewell to home
To sail across the mighty sea
So far away to roam
She said that she would wait for him
Till 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 travelled
Beneath the ensign high
He saw the south sea’s flying fish
Starlit arctic sky
But in his hearty a pining
For she 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
The 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

That's a long, long time ago
There's a picture in a frame
There's tears shed every Christmas
For the memory’s still the same
Of the young man in the photograph
If he 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,