079 - Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye Here the hauling shanty. Tozer and Colcord give a version, the former giving a set of very sentimental verses which Stan Hugill, he fell sure to have been made up. C. F. Smith sees in it a resemblance to "Shallow Brown”. Shanties from the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 118). Goodbye, My Love, Goodbye I,m bound away to leave yer, - GoodBYE my love, goodBYE! I never will deceiver yer, - GoodBYE my love, goodBYE! *2* I'll leave you my half pay, Sue, White-stocking Day soon will be due. *3* Have a drink on me, my dearie, For waiting's mighty weary. *4* We're bound away to 'Frisco, Oh, cut her strings an' let 'er go!
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