Sing-Along Lyrics

2024 La Nef Concert

Strikes A Bell Shanty Sing Along

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Choruses and Responses

Sing what is in bold face!

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Blow the Man Down

Come all ye young sailors that follow the sea,

Way Hey Blow the Man Down!

Now please pay attention and listen to me,

Give me some time to blow the man down!

 

Essequibo River 

The Essequibo river is the king of rivers all
Buddy ta na na we are somebody oh

The Essequibo river is the king of rivers all
Buddy ta na na we are somebody oh

 

Chorus:
Somebody oh Johnny Somebody oh
Buddy ta na na we are somebody oh
Somebody oh Johnny, somebody oh
Buddy ta na na we are somebody oh

 

 

Donkey Riding

Way, Hey, and Away we go,

Donkey Riding, Donkey Riding

Way, hey, and away we go,

Riding on a donkey!

 

Dance Boatman Dance

Dance boatman dance, Dance boatman dance

Dance all night 'til the broad daylight

Go home with the gals in the morning

Hey Ho the boatmen row, sailin' on the river on the O-Hi-O

Hey Ho the boatmen row, sailin' on the river on the O-Hi-O

 

Le Capitane de San Malo 

Le Capitane de San Malo

A lee A low

 

Alle Alle a Lee A Low,

Alee a low.

 

Captain Kidd

My name is Captain Kidd as I sailed, as I sailed.

My name is Captain Kidd as I sailed

My name is Captiain Kidd and wickedly I did.

And wickedly I did as I sailed as I sailed

And wickedly I did as I sailed.

 

 

Valparaiso in a Rowboat
Words and Music © Zeke Hoskins
Windsor is a lovely port we're proud to sing about
There's a warehouse full of whisky, though the Yankees do without
And when Customs asks us where we're bound, we ship our oars and shout:
"We're bound for Valparaiso in a rowboat"

Chorus:
Pull your oars! We're on our way!
With a thousand quarts of whisky bound for Valparaiso bay
And we haven't no intention for to see the U. S. A.
We're bound for Valparaiso in a rowboat

Nothing But a Humbug!

You’re nothin’ but a humbug.

So they say, so they say.

You’re nothin’ but a humbug.

That’s all I know!


Paddy Lay Back

'Twas a cold and dreary morning in December (December)

And all of me money, it was spent (Spent, spent!)

Where it went to, love, I can't remember (Remember)

So down to the shipping office I went (Went, went)

 

Chorus:      

Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back) 

Take in your slack (Take in your slack)   

Take your turn around the capstan, Heave a pawl (Heave a pawl!)

'Bout ship's stations, boys, be handy (Be handy) 

We're bound for Valpariso  'Round the Horn

 

Strike the Bell

Strike the bell second mate, let us go below

Look ye well to wind’erd you can see it's going to blow

Looking at the glass you can see that it is fell

And we wish that you would hurry up and strike, strike the bell

 

Molly Mauk

Written by Bob Watson

Down upon the southern ocean sailing
Down below Cape Horn

 

Won’t you ride the wind and go, white seabird
Won’t you ride the wind and go, mollymawk
Down upon the southern ocean sailing
Down below Cape Horn

Tonight's the Night for Drinking

Northerly bobbing up and down along with all the others

Half of them have cousins in the town and the other half are brothers.

 

Chorus:

 And tonight, tonight they're all ashore

 When they've had enough to drink, they'll drink some more

 That's what the old town's for

 Tonight's the night for drinking!

 

Last Chorus on 2nd round:

And tonight, tonight they're all ashore

When they've had enough to drink, they'll drink some more

Who ever said Lord Nelson's dead?

Tonight's the night for drinking!

 

Bully in the Alley

Sally's the gal that I love dearly

Way Hey Bully in the Alley

Sally's the gal that I spliced nearly

Bully down in Shinbone Al

 

So!

Help me Bob I'm bully in the alley

Way, Hey, bully in the alley

Help me Bob I'm bully in the alley

Bully down in Shinbone Al

 

Bimini Bay

Chorus:
Send my bail down to Bimini.

This town is wearisome.

Got thrown in jail just for drinkin' Barbados rum, Barbados rum.
Oh, 'til I go down to Bimini, never get a lickin 'til I go down to Bimini.,

 

Sheep On the Deep

By Jonathon Eberhart

 

Basic Chorus:

(Alternate underlined word with last line in each verse)

Sheep, sheep, don't you know the tide?

Yes, yes, we know the tide.

Sheep, sheep, don't you know the tide?

Oh yes, we know the tide.

 

Final Chorus:

Sheep, sheep, don't you know the sheep?

Yes, yes, we know the sheep.

For fifty million shillings down

I would not sail again with sheep.

 

Long Hot Summer Day

by John Hartford

 

chorus:

For every day I work on the Illinois River

Get a half a day off with pay

On a tow boat takin' up barges

On a long hot summer day

 

Shallow Brown

Fare thee well, me Juliana

  Shallow, o shallow brown

Fare thee well, me Juliana

  Shallow, o shallow brown


One Big Ocean

by Tom Lewis

Chorus:

One big ocean joining up the seven seas

One big ocean from the mountains to the deeps

One big ocean the way it seems to me

There is really only one big ocean