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Thread #140097   Message #4187847
Posted By: GUEST
26-Sep-23 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
Subject: RE: Origins: I'm not in the navy, a sailor boy I sit
None of the songs listed on this thread contain the lyrics listed in the thread when searching them up online. The lyrics as I was taught in '77-'78 ...

I’m not in the Navy, a sailor boy, I said
No one cares about me,
but I don’t give a ship a sailing

Cross the sea, so far away from shore
I don’t wear skirts and girdles
So you can’t call me a …

Horse and bridle, saddle, that’s what I got to sell
If you don’t want to buy them
Then you can go to …

Helen is my girlfriends name. She drives a new Ford truck.
She never was much for driving
But you oughta see her…

Fumble, fumble, fumble, she fumbles with my heart
And every time I drink some brew
I have to get up and …

Peek around the corner, take a look at that girl of mine
She never married me for love
All she wanted was…

Peter Murphy had a dog, a very fine dog, indeed
He’d run his nose up the ladies clothes
And try to smell her…

Go away, you, dirty dog, you harm my precious pride
There’s never been a man in this whole wide world
To lay between her…

Thank you for this glass of beer. I’ll drink the dang thing down
Time to get off the floor old man
cause it’s time for another round