Heave Away on Celtic Folk Harp

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  • Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
  • Another working song. Shanties were not collected very early, unlike other folk music, so the origins of this tune are long uncertain.
    Sheet music for 40 Sea Shanties can be purchased here: a.co/d/0bMVIaS6
    Lyrics:
    As I walked out one summer's morn down by the Salthouse Docks,
    Heave away, my Johnny, heave away, away!
    I me an emigrant Irish girl conversing with Tapscott,
    And away, my bully boys, we're all bound to go!
    'Good morning, Mr Tapscott Sir,' 'Good morn, me gal,' says he.
    'Oh, it's have you got a packet ship all bound for America?'
    'Oh yes I have got a packet ship, I have got one or two.
    I've got the Jinny Walker and I've got the Kangaroo.
    'I've got the Jinny Walker and today she does set sail,
    With five and fifty emigrants and a thousand bags of meal.'
    The day was fine when we set sail, but night was barely come,
    And every lubber never ceased to wish himself at home.
    That night as we was sailing through the Channel of St James,
    A dirty nor'west wind came up and drove us back again.
    We snugged her and and we laid her to, with reefed main tops all set,
    It was no joke I tell you, cause our bunks and clothes were wet.
    It cleared up fine at break 'o day and we set sail once more,
    And every son-of-gun was glad when we reached America's shore.
    Bad luck to them Irish sailor boys, bad luck to them I say,
    For they all got drunk, broke into me bunk, and stole me clothes away.

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