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Thread #88720 Message #1666321
Posted By: Barbara
10-Feb-06 - 03:51 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: If I Had a Ship (from Kingston Trio)
Subject: Lyr Req: If I had a ship, I'd sail away
A friend of mine is looking for this. She learned it many years ago (25? 30?) in Nairobi, Kenya where it was sung by a buncha expat UK guys who had a group there called "Hootenanny".
CHORUS: If I had a ship, I'd sail away If I had a ship, I'd sail away Leave my troubles where they lay If I had a ship, I'd sail away
Way down by the sea I'd leave my troubles on the shore .......... will never see If I had a ship, I'd sail away.
She's been singing it to her kids as a lullabye, and this is all she can remember, but there's more, and of course, she's not positive these words are exact.