1. When I went out walkin'
for pleasure today,
To sweet relations
To while the time away,

2. While I sot amusin'
myself in the grass,
O, who did I spy
but a fair Indian lass.

3. She sot down beside me
and taken my hand,
And said, “You're a stranger
and in some strange land.

4. “But if you will follow,
you welcome to go
Down in the cottage
that I call my home.

5. The sun was fast sinkin'
far over the sea
As I wandered along
with my pretty Mohee.

6. Together we wandered,
together we roamed
T' come to the cottage
in the coconut grove.

7. The kind and compassion
she made unto me,
“If you would decide, sir,
to stay here with me

8. “And go no more roamin'
upon the salt sea,
I'd teach you the linger
of the last of Mohee.

9. “Oh, no, my dear madam,
that never could be;
I have a true lover
in my own country.”

10. “I will not forsake her,
I know she loves me;
Her heart is as true
as the pretty Mohee.”

11. It's early one morning',
one mornin' in May,
To that fair maiden
the words I did say:

12. “I'm going away to leave you,
so farewell my dear;
My ship sails are spreadin',
it's home I must steer.”

13. The last time I saw her,
she stood on the sand,
And as I sailed past her,
she waved me her hand.

14. Sayin', “When you are landed
on your own native shore,
Remember Mohee
and the coconut grove.”

15. When I were a-landed
on my own native shore
With friends and relations
around me once more,

16. I gazed, oh, into them;
no one did I see
Was fit to compare with
The pretty Mohee

17. I turned my course backward,
to this land I'll flee;
I'll spend my days
with the pretty Mohee.