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Thread #48959 Message #3211046
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
22-Aug-11 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: South Australia:What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
Subject: RE: What the hell's a 'Rolling King'?
More data for the history of this song.
1894 Douglass, George P., ed. “Heave Away!â€쳌 Yearbook (American Canoe Association). Newark, NJ: The Holbrook Printing Company.
This text of a song, evidently recently popular among outdoorsmen, was published on a dedicated page in this publicationof the American Canoe Association.
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“HEAVE AWAY!â€쳌
AS SUNG BY JAS. R. LAKE.
Australia, my lads, is a very fine place, Heave away! heave away! And to go to South Australia, lads, is surely no disgrace, We 're bound for Australia. Cho. -- Heave away! my bully boys, Heave away! heave away! Heave away, and don't make a noise, 
 We 're bound for Australia.
In rain and hail and frost and snow, Heave away! heave away! It's up aloft poor Jack must go, We're bound for Australia. Cho.â€"Heave away, my bully boys, etc.
Oh, my dear mother she wrote to me, Heave away! heave away! 
 Oh, my dear Jack, come home from sea, We 're bound for Australia. Cho.â€"Heave away, my bully boys, etc.
And if ever I once set foot on shore, Heave away! heave away! I 'll never go to sea anymore, We 're bound for Australia. Cho.â€"Heave away! my bully boys, etc.