I hope the line breaks work better than the last time I tried this. I don't have the tune notated and would be grateful if someone could post it. RUMMY (Author unknown) 1. Rummy was a good old dog, And a sea dog through and through; He sailed aboard the Alice Gray, With the captain and his crew. They found him on a summer morn, (Been swimming in the sea) It was off the coast of Newfoundland, And a Newfoundland was he. CHORUS: And it's [whistle] Come on here, old Rummy, Got some hard tack bread and a codfish head; [Whistle] Come on here, old Rummy, Won't you bring some luck to me? 2. They fished him out and they dried him off, And they gave him bread and bone; And he slept and he dined and he liked the find, And he found himself a home. The crews may come and the crews may go, And the captains may depart; But Rummy and the Alice Gray, Could not be kept apart. 3. And then one day in the early spring, The Alice Gray left home; And Rummy would not sail with her, But would only sit and moan. The Alice Gray she was lost that night, The ship and all her men; And Rummy stayed ashore, And he never went to sea again. 4. It's always wise to check the skies, When you're sailing far from shore; But Rummy knew though the skies were blue, It was time to sail no more. And the Gloucester men they shake their heads, And they wonder what to do; And they don't leave home without a bone, For Rummy, 'cause he knew. Walter, you used 'bk' where you should have used 'br' (inside angle brackets) as your HTML line breaks. -JoeClone, 28-Aug-01.
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