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GUEST,Gibb	Lyr Req: Nordhoff Chantey 'We're Going Away' (10)	RE: Lyr Req: Nordhoff Chantey 'We're Going Away'	11 Feb 09
I've interpreted that to be a version of "Across the Western Ocean" (which some might say developed into "Leave her, johnny." It makes sense, too, what with the setting in the 1840s and Irish emigrants crossing the Atlantic. You could flesh it out with verses from those chanteys. "Amelia, where ya bound to...?"

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