I *think* I've got the title correct –
Curly brackets indicate 2nd voice/response

THE SEA, THE SEA
(Brian Leo)

On a fine October day in the lovely month of May
I was squinting through the sunlight
Just to watch the raindrops play
'Twas the day I left me home
that dear place I'd never known
As with 30 friends I started off alone
Well me schooling was all done
So as silent as a gun
I slipped out and head off to westward
Towards the rising summer sun
I was running off to sea, there a farmer for to be
Whilst me Dad and widowed mother sang a tune.
They sang…

The sea! {the sea!} the sea !{the sea!}
The adventuring life for me {Yo ho!}
Where never you find a day of tears or sorrow!
{Follow me boys!}
The sea! {the sea!} the sea !{the sea!}
A better place to be {Yo ho!}
I'll never return to shore before tomorrow! {YO!}

As an able bodied man, I signed on with Captain Dan
Who was hunting for the whale-fish
In the mountains of Japan
Well our ship had no harpoons
So we used our wooden spoons,
And our bait dropped from an iron clad balloon
Well ode day I got me wish,
And I hooked that giant fish
And I flipped him o'er me shoulder
On the Captain's supper dish
Well the captain tapped a keg, as he tore me off a leg
And we sang beneath the blistering April moon.
We sang…

chorus:

In a pub in Tokyo, where the river Shannon flows,
I bid Captain Dan "Aloha", it was time for me to go
Well he smiled, and said "me boy,
Here's a gift you should enjoy."
His own broadsword made of finest Kerner (?) oil.
Then we parted without tears,
After 57 years
And I rode away to Ireland in an hour and a year
There me mum and sisters three,
Each an only child like me
Danced a jig while Father strummed his old bassoon
We sang…

chorus x2

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Thread #36811   Message #4143726
Posted By: GUEST,Tinker in Chicago
08-Jun-22 - 06:46 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Nonsense song about being a sailor?
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Nonsense song about being a sailor?

Well, I see MMario posted the lyrics to my song The Sea many years ago, but let me make a few corrections. First verse: “I slipped out and headed (not head off to) Westward.” Chorus: not “Follow me, boys” but “Tell ‘em, me boy.” Chorus: “No better place to be.” And it’s “until tomorrow.” In the chorus there’s a typo: “one day” instead of “ode day.” Third verse: not “finest Kerner oil” but “finest courduroy.” Also, “I rowed me way to Ireland” instead of “I rode away to Ireland.” If you don’t have access to my albums, William Pint & Felicia Dale also recorded it.