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Thread #72368   Message #1250852
Posted By: Snuffy
18-Aug-04 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: James M. Carpenter Shanties & Sea Songs
Subject: Lyr Add: A LONG TIME AGO (Andrew Salters, Greenock
How about this one? I haven't a clue what most of the real words might be, but what I hear makes a sort of surreal sense. ANy better readings would be most welcome.

A Long Time Ago (Andrew Salters, Greenock)

A long time and a long long time
To me way hay hay yah
A long time and a long long time
Oh a long time ago

When I was going to [buy a Mayonne?]
To me way hay hay yah
When I was going to [buy a Mayonne?]
A long time ago

And for [a cake I headed home?] etc

[She felt me bread and left me good?]

[I stole three pies I pawned them good?]

[With old Bill Goles a totem pole?]

In old [Kilgeorgia?] I was born

And I was bound to New Orleans

Belay