YANKEE packet's down the water -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Third mate loved the skipper's daughter -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. Fill her up and let her go -- Wey-hey-ho! Wey-hey-ho! Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
How'd you know 'twas a Yankee packet? Blow, my bully boys, blow; Know'd her by the awful racket -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. Wey-hey-ho, the cook was jealous, Spiled the soup and bust his bellus -- Blow, my bully boys, blow!
Once she did a bit o' tradin' -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Third mate killed the cook at Aden -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Fill her up an' let her go, Down with coal to Callao -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Go she must, or go to blazes -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Shout the good old packet's praises -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. Lively Loo from Boston sailing, All the girls were left bewailing Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Lively Loo she took my fancy -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; So I shipped with Captain Clancy -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. Wind abaft a lively breeze -- Sailed away to China seas -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Sad we left our loves behind us -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; To be true they long enjoined us -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. But we found in foreign places Welcome smiles on fairer faces -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Oh! our skipper was a daisy -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Drove the whole fo'castle crazy -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. So we left him ruck and rumbo In the harbour of Colombo -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Lively Loo was heard no more on -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Went one night a dark lee shore on -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. Sharks, they ate the old man's nose off, Bit his ears and then his toes off -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
'Longshore lasses came to greet us -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Bumboat men were glad to meet us Blow, my bully boys, blow; Sold our togs to buy bad liquor, Pawned my pants and popped the ticker -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Got another ship to sail in -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Went to Arctic Ocean whalin', Blow, my bully boys, blow; Struck a 'berg one night and sunk it, Freezin' cold, but couldn't funk it -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Saw a right whale busy spoutin' -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; "There she blows!" the look-out shoutin' -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; 'Lower away!" and off we goes, mate. Sticks a harpoon in her nose, mate -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Off she goes and us behind her -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Got a calf, but never mind her -- Blow, my bully boys, blow: Down she dives, our lances shunning -- Keeps the harpoon-reel a-running, Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Up she comes, and right beside us -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Goes about; now woe betide us! Blow, my bully boys, blow; Turned her tail gee-whoop! and thrashed us, Into fifty pieces smashed us -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Missed the coxswain as we wallowed -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Angry whale poor chap had swallowed -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Second boat, she saw her spout then, Killed the whale and cut him out, men -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!
Yankee packet's down the river -- Blow, my bully boys, blow; Fifteen hundred bales to give her -- Blow, my bully boys, blow. Wey-hey-ho! Wey-hey-ho! Fill her up and let her go -- Blow, blow, my bully boys, blow!