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Thread #12089   Message #93571
Posted By: Barry Finn
08-Jul-99 - 11:13 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Sam's Gone Away (Shanty)
Subject: RE: Info request on Sam's Gone Away (Shanty)
Another version from the West Indies

Well done, well done for Sam
Sam gone away on bully man-o-war
Hoorow, hoorow, hoorow for Sam
Sam gone away on bully man-o-war

I wish I wsa a bos'n aboard the man-o-war
Sam gone away on bully man-o-war
Hoorow, hoorow, hoorow for Sam
Sam gone away on bully man-o-war

Well done, well done, well done, brave boy
Sam gone away on bully man-o-war
I wish I was the chief mate aboard the man-o-war
Sam gone away on bully man-o-war

Etc,etc,etc. From Horace Beck's "Folklore & The Sea"
Barry