From the sheet music at Johns Hopkins University:


THE CASTAWAYS
Words by Edward Harrigan. music by Dave Braham ©1881.
"As sung in Edward Harrigan's comic play, "Mulligan's Silver Wedding."

[1] On the good ship Dolly Dorkins from London I set sail,
All bound for the Indian Ocean; oh, hear my mournful tale!
The whole ship's crew and captain too, the cook a brown Malay,
In a hurricane of wind and rain, brave boys, we were cast away.

[CHORUS] With a hay, hay, hay and a ho, ho, ho, I'll ne'er forget that day
When the whole ship's crew and the captain too, brave boys, we were cast away.

[2] We'd a cask or two of water stowed in the old ship's boat.
A box of old sea biscuits by chance we found afloat.
All tempest tossed with compass lost, we had no time to pray.
Our flag of distress was a pants and vest; brave boys, we were cast away.

[3] Afloat on the Indian Ocean through fair and foul and calm,
I saw as the sun was rising an island full of palm.
"Ho, land!" I cried; I never lied; says Captain, "Where away?"
"On our starboard bow, we're safe, lads, now; hip, hurrah for the castaway!"

[4] Says the captain, "Do your duty, all hands, when you're ashore.
The first man goes for booty, I'll brain him with an oar."
We struck the beach; we heard a screech; 'twas Indian girls at play.
It drove away the blues when they came out in canoes; hip, hurrah for the castaway!

[5] An Indian queen of sweet sixteen says: "We were drove from home.
A king of another island sent us here to die alone.
One hundred wives for all your lives, I give each sailor gay."
Then each copper-colored belle sent up an Indian yell; hip, hurrah for the castaway!

[6] All sailors bold, I have been told, who ship before the mast,
Will sail the ocean over to find that isle at last;
But, bless your hearts, 'taint on the charts, all navigators say;
But I've done no harm; I've spun my yarn; hip, hurrah for the castaway!