080 - Hurrah, Sing Fare Ye Well - (WITH PRESENTATION)


Here the hauling song resembling this latter somewhat is "Hurrah, Sing Fare Ye Well!" Whall calls it "O Fare Ye Well, My Bonnie Young Girl". Stan Hugill's version, with perhaps a few more regular verses than usual, obtained from an old Liverpool seaman. Normally there was one pull in the refrain on the second syllable of "Hurrah".
Shanties from the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 119).


Hurrah, Sing Fare Ye Well

Sing fare ye well me bonny young gal,
   - HurRAH! Sing fare ye well!
Sing fare ye well, oh, fare ye well,
   - HurRAH! Sing fare ye well!

               *2*
We're bound away to Callyo,
Oh, fare ye well, me Liverpool gal,

               *3*
I may cime back th ye some day,
With a spanking' big fat pay-day.

               *4*
But when we get to Callyo,
I'll git me a nice bit o' Dago,

               *5*
As I walked out one mornin' fair,
I met a puta standin' there.

               *6*
She winked at me I do declare,
Black as night was her raven hair.

               *7*
She was a Spanish beauty bold.
Her name was Carmen, so I'm told.

               *8*
Oh, fare ye well, we're bound away,
We're bound away this sailing day.