085 - Goodbye Fare-ye-well (odd verses collection)

This shanty it was sung at the windlass or capstan when raising the anchor. Collection of the culled odd verses to this version are from other shantymen - mainly German and Scandinavian. I think their enough verses to sing them together as a separate version. I used a slightly different melody mentioned by Stan Hugill, after version D.
"Shanties from the Seven Seas" by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 123, 124).



Goodbye Fare-ye-well (odd verses collection)


At home there waits mother, an' Susie an' Flo,
   - Goodbye, fare-ye-well! goodbye, fare-ye-well!
With all o' them pulling she's sure to go.
   - Horraw, me boys, we're homeward bound!

                  *2*
We're loaded down with sugar and rum,
The sails they are set and the wind she has come.

                  *3*
Our ropes are now taut and our sails they are full,
She spreads out her wings like a herring-back gull.

                  *4*
We're homeward bound with a roaring breeze,
We're homeward bound, so the Old Man says.