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GUEST,brooko	Lyr Req: Spice Island (chantey - Short Drag Roger) (17)	Lyr Add: SPICE ISLAND (from Short Drag Roger)	16 Oct 14
I've just sat and listened to it and wrote it down. just in case anyone else wants to learn it SPICE ISLAND I'm a merchant man east India line Oh way hay oh haul away Sail the roaring seas to where the weather its fine Oh haul away for the company We're the finest crew ever seen onboard Oh way hay oh haul away We knows how to sail her and use a sword Oh haul away for the company Spice island I'm bound away Time will pass a year and a day Afore I'll see spice island or Portsmouth town Mr lindergren he declares to me I pays you more than the ruddy navy And me ships are fast gunned to the teeth Send many a frenchie to his lasting grief In Singapore where the yellow girls smile Then I'll wait the company's ship a while I'll catch me a rig to a canton town I'll take me pay and have a walk around Off the African coast ha the pirates sea Well they aint no match for the bombay marine Through the spanish maine she's homeward bound We'll taste the air boys in Portsmouth town Spice island I'm bound away Time will pass a year and a day Afore I'll see spice island or Portsmouth town

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