Haul for Glasson! Tune; Farewell to Tarwathie/Green Bushes/The Waggoner's Lad/Farewell Angelina

Home to dear England Our ship she is bound
And in heaving the lead We'll soon strike English ground
What pleasure we have With what joy cry the men
When we come into sight Of old England again

Chorus (Repeat second part of tune)
And we call, Haul for Glasson! Through sea-spray and foam
Yes, we all haul for Glasson As we come sailing home

We wait in Lune Deep Then sail up with the tide
John Lamb will be ready Dock gates open wide
By Cockersand light And then past Plover Scar
Every family awaits The return of their tar

Chorus

Now our ship she's inside Of John Lamb's parlour doors
Up to the Pier Hall We must go, to be sure
For there our dear girls Come from town in great style
To welcome us home With embraces and smiles

Chorus

Adapted and extended from the memories recalled by Ruth Zanoni Roskell in Glimpses of Glasson Dock, Landy Publishing 2005. Glasson Dock was built in 1787 at the mouth of the River Lune to serve Lancaster. Lancaster was the fourth most important port in the UK for the slave trade. It still has a regular service to the Isle of Man. John Lamb was the first dock gate man; the dock gates were called John Lamb's parlour doors. Cockersand and Plover Scar lighthouses were built in 1847. The Pier Hall, later The Caribou, was built in the 1780s and survives as private apartments. Henry Peacock