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Thread #155195 Message #3669653
Posted By: GUEST,brooko
16-Oct-14 - 11:53 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Spice Island (chantey - Short Drag Roger)
Subject: Lyr Add: SPICE ISLAND (from Short Drag Roger)
I've just sat and listened to it and wrote it down. just in case anyone else wants to learn it
SPICE ISLAND
I'm a merchant man east India line
Oh way hay oh haul away
Sail the roaring seas to where the weather its fine
Oh haul away for the company
We're the finest crew ever seen onboard
Oh way hay oh haul away
We knows how to sail her and use a sword
Oh haul away for the company
Spice island I'm bound away
Time will pass a year and a day
Afore I'll see spice island or Portsmouth town
Mr lindergren he declares to me
I pays you more than the ruddy navy
And me ships are fast gunned to the teeth
Send many a frenchie to his lasting grief
In Singapore where the yellow girls smile
Then I'll wait the company's ship a while
I'll catch me a rig to a canton town
I'll take me pay and have a walk around
Off the African coast ha the pirates sea
Well they aint no match for the bombay marine
Through the spanish maine she's homeward bound
We'll taste the air boys in Portsmouth town
Spice island I'm bound away
Time will pass a year and a day
Afore I'll see spice island or Portsmouth town