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Ged Fox Lyr Req: Barnacle Bill the Sailor (42) RE: Lyr Req: Barnacle Bill the Sailor 20 Aug 12


The sexually explicit versions are plentiful and easy to find, but here is a fragment of a version suitable for the young. It's all that I can remember from my grandparents' singing, and I suspect that there are more verses (I don't think this version is in Mudcat, or otherwise googlable.)


Who's that knocking at my door? etc

Its only me from over the sea,
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor,
I've just come home from Portugee
Aboard a British whaler

Have you brought my kangaroo? etc

Yes, I've brought your kangaroo
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor,
And a polly parrot too
Said Barnacle Bill the sailor

I'll come down and let you in etc


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