Sing-Along Lyrics

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Maritime Showcase, Saturday 5/27

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Liverpool Judies

And it’s roll

Roll!

Roll bullies roll,

Them Liverpool judies has got us in tow

 

Let the Bulgine Run

The smartest packet you can find

A Hey, A Ho, are you most done

The Margaret Evans of the Black Ball Line

Clear away the track and let the Bulgine Run

 

Hey rig-a-jig and a jaunting car

A Hey, A Ho, are you most done

Liza Lee all on my knee

Clear away the track and let the Bulgine Run

 

One Big Ocean

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

 

Dark Old Waters

Don't be thinking of me

All away and alone

On the rolling old sea

On the foreign ground

For I laid your keel and that's dandy for me

On the dark old waters, all alone

where you go,

go well, and a fair wind home

 

Sundown Below

Sun is down in the hold below

Sun down, sun down below

Sun is down it's time to go

Sun down, sun down below

 

Connemara Cradle Song

Hear the wind blow love, hear the wind blow

Lean your head over and hear the wind blow

 

Julia Belle

You know I'm coming back, you know I'm coming back

Fare thee well I'm Julia Belle, and you know I'm coming back

 

No more a workin' girl, no more a workin' girl

Fare thee well I'm Julia Belle, no more a workin' girl

 

Wandering everywhere, wandering everywhere

Fare thee well I'm Julia Belle, wandering everywhere

 

Here's to Captain Troan, here's to Captain Troan,

Fare thee well I'm Julia Belle, here's to Captain Troan

 

Run Come See Jerusalem

It was nineteen-hundred and twenty-nine

Run come see, run come see

It was nineteen-hundred and twenty-nine

Run come see Jerusalem

 

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 Sea Chanties with Strikes A Bell, Workshop, Monday 5/29

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Sugar in the Hold

Hey ho, below, below, stowing sugar in the hold below, HUH!

Hey ho, below, below, stowing sugar in the hold below!

 

Donkey Riding

Was you ever in Quebec?

Donkey Riding, Donkey Riding

Stowing timber on the deck?

Riding on a donkey

 

Way, hey, and away we go, donkey riding, donkey riding

Way, hey, and away we go, riding on a donkey

 

Fire Down Below (Capstan)

I thought I heard the captain say

Fire down, below--- boys

Fire down below

 

General Taylor (Capstan or Halyard)

General Taylor gained the day

Walk him along, John carry him along

General Taylor gained the day

Carry him to his buryin’ ground

 

Way Hey stormy

Walk him along, John carry him along

Way Hey Stormy

Carry him to his buryin’ ground

 

Dan Dan

After all lines: HUH!

 

Boney was a Warrior (Sweating Up, short drag)

Boney was a warrior

Way Hey Ya!

A warrior a tarrier

John François

 

Paddy Doyle’s Boots (Bunting)

To me, way, hey, hey, YAH!

 

A Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore (Halyard)

When I was young and in my prime

Oh, Yes, Oh

I thought I'd work on the Black Ball Line

A hundred years ago

 

Dance Boatman Dance (Forebitter)

Dance boatman dance, Dance boatman dance

Dance all night 'til the broad daylight

Go home with the gals in the morning

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

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

 

Bully in the Alley (Long-haul)

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

 

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

 

Jamaica Farewell (Forebitter, modern by Lord Burgess)

So I’m sad to say, I’m on my way

Won’t be back for many a day

My heart is down, my head is turning around

I had to leave a little girl in Kingston town

 

Mollymauk (Forebitter, modern by Bob Watson)

The southern ocean is a lonely place, where the storms are many and the shelter scarce

Down upon the southern ocean sailing, down below Cape Horn

On the restless waters with a troubling sky, you can see that mollymauk wheel and fly

Down upon the southern ocean sailing, down below Cape Horn

 

Cannery Shed (Forebitter, modern by Mary Garvey)

I've worked all my life in the cannery shed

And if I'm dyin’ or ya think I'm dead

Don't bury my bones but put me instead

In a can in the cannery shed

 

O'Bruadair (Piratical)

Rollin' glory on the ocean

 

(Last line only) Ghosting glory on the ocean

 

Tonight's the Night for Drinking (Forebitter)

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)

And tonight, tonight we're all ashore

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

Whoever said Lord Nelson's dead? 

Tonight's the night for drinking!

 

Poor Old Horse (Ceremonial)

A poor old horse came riding by

And we say so and we hope so

We said to him your horse will die

O poor old horse

 

Strike the Bell (Pumping)

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