Here it is then - it is the song you want.

The notes say: ... both songs use a chorus which relies on tripling. This tripling is also found in "Going Back To Weldon", a song whose possible railroad origins are revealed in its alternating chorus about returning to work in the Weldon, North Carolina, railway yards. The song also reveals some of the toughness of the black maritime workers with its reference to the Captain's Luger and the Mate's "owl's head", a small double-barreled pistol so-called for the way it looks to someone on the receiving end"

There's one word I can't make out, that I've noted as birdie, but it could be body or Bernie, or something else; I'm open to suggestions on that.

I've left out the various interjections they make at the end of lines (if you know the style of the Menhaden Chanteymen, you'll know what I mean - things like: Let's get 'em up there now, come on let's get 'em
now, and so on).

Mick

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GOING BACK TO WELDON

I'm going back to Weldon, Weldon, Weldon
I'm going back to Weldon
To get a job in the Weldon Yard.

Oh, I'm going back to Weldon, Weldon, Weldon
Oh, I'm going back to Weldon
To get a job in the Weldon Yard.

Oh, Captain, if you fire me, fire me, fire me
Oh, Captain, if you fire me
You got to fire my birdie? too.

Oh, I'm going back to Weldon, Weldon, Weldon
Oh, I'm going back to Weldon
To get a job in the Weldon Yard.

Oh, de Captain's got a Luger, Luger, Luger,
Oh, de Captain's got a Luger
And the mates got a owl head*

Oh, I'm going back to Weldon, Weldon, Weldon
I'm moving back to Weldon
To get a job in the Weldon Yard

I don't want no woman, woman, woman
I don't want no woman
That's got hair like a horses mane

Oh, I don't want no woman, woman, woman
I don't want no woman
That's got hair like a horses mane

Oh, I'm going back to Weldon, Weldon, Weldon
Oh, I'm going back to Weldon
To get a job in the Weldon Yard.

Oh, de house is on fire, fire, fire
De house is on fire
And it's almost burning down

Oh, de house is on fire, fire, fire
It's true, de house is on fire
And it's almost burning down

Oh, I'm going back to Weldon, Weldon, Weldon
I'm going back to Weldon
To get a job in the Weldon Yard.


* see notes

Source: Menhaden Chanteymen: Won't You Help Me To Raise Em