WHO'S GOING TO PAY PADDY DOYLE?
(Words Ron Baxter/tune David Ryan)


G D C G
cho: So it's move into steam lads and give up the sea
Am Em
That's the only choice left for shellbacks like me
Am Em
For the royals and t'gallants are all burnt up with coal
G D7 G
And who's going to pay Paddy Doyle?


I started as a packet rat bound to Amerikee
Landing the immigrants on the New York quays
On board of a Black Baller there I served my time
Till Sam Cunard come along with his steam ship line

Carried tea from Shanghai on the Thermopylae
Running down the China Sea through the cyclone eye
Then they opened the Suez, Blue Funnel took the run
Though the fastest ever built, the clipper ships were done.

I carried coal to Chile and brought the nitrate home
Battled through endless gales that blow around the Horn
But the PSNC steamers used that coal I'm afraid
So it's farewell 'Serafina' you must learn another trade

So parish rigged we sailed on, both ships and their crews
Tramping the world for cargoes was the only trade we knew
But now I'm forced to serve with steam for sails is dead and gone
Dead as that 'Poor Old Horse' as dead as 'Stormalong'

And now we weigh anchor not as in former years
Now we call for steam on deck put the windlass into gear
No walking round the capstan a-taking in the slack
And bawling out the choruses of 'Paddy lay back'

final cho: So it's move into steam lads and give up the sea
That's the only choice left for shellbacks like me
For the royals and t'gallants are all burnt up with coal
And who's going to pay Paddy Doyle?

For the royals and t'gallants are all burnt up with coal
And who's going to pay Paddy Doyle?


To my way hay hay agh
We'll pay Paddy Doyle for his BOOTS!

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