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Thread #8009 Message #4032601
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Feb-20 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: 'Wild Goose Shanty (Ranzo)' background
Subject: RE: 'Wild Goose Shanty' background
The lyrics Kate Rusby sings are amazingly similar to the lyrics we have in the Digital Tradition. Here's the Rusby recording:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6tVU--Cbes
WILD GOOSE
(as recorded by Kate Rusby)
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
They're just like them pretty girls when they get the notion
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
Chorus
Ranzo you'll rue the day
As the wild goose sails away
As I was walking one evening by the river
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
I met with a pretty girl my heart it was a quiver
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
(Chorus x 2)
I said how are you doing this morning
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
She said none the better for the seeing of you
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
(Chorus x 2)
You broke my heart oh you broke it full sore o'
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
If I sail like the wild goose
You'll break it no more o'
Ranzo my boys oh Ranzo Ray
Can't say I'm familiar with the Steeleye Span version, either: They sure ain't nothin' like anything I've ever heard at a chantey sing.
This is the Killen version I'm familiar with: