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Thread #20690   Message #1104027
Posted By: EBarnacle
29-Jan-04 - 01:39 AM
Thread Name: Scottish music-hall songs
Subject: Lyr Add: WE PARTED ON THE SHORE (Harry Lauder)
One that I do with some regularity is "We parted on the shore"

It's been years and years and years and years, and years and years and years and years,
Since I left ma bonnie lassie on the shore.
I never will forget the way she cried, I'd never seen so many tears before.
She asked me if I'd think of her,
I said perhaps I would, but I often broken promises before
And then she sat and stood and then began to weep
And when I saw that, we parted on the shore!

Cho: Oh, we parted on the shore,
We parted on the shore;
I said goodbye my love, I'm bound for Baltimore.
I kissed her on the cheek and the crew began to roar,
Ilio, ilio, we parted on the shore.

Now, for years and years and years and years, and years and years and years
I sailed away across the raging main;
And often I'd lie in my bunk and hope and hope and hope and hope some more;
To never see that Lassie's face again.
Now the more that I'd lie in my bunk,
I'd lie in my bunk and hope
And then the tears would come and stand and rollll and rollll and rollll and rollll,
Just like the waves that roll upon the shore.

Chorus

Now, for years and years and years and years, and years and years and years,
I never lived on anything but hope;
And then one day I went to wash my face upon the upper deck
And the Captain swore I tried to eat the soap!
He took me to his cabin and he gave me a drink of drink--
T'was a drink of drink I'd never drunk before;
And when I'd drunk that drink of drink of drink the captain had me drink,
I thought of her I'd left upon the shore.

Chorus

Do it slow and somewhat painfully. It works well.