TALCAHUANO GIRLS
- Oh, 'Ive been a sea-cook, and I've been a Clipperman,
I can sing, I can dance, I can walk the jib-boom.
I can handle a harpoon, and cut a fine figure
Whenever I get in a boat's standing room.
Chorus: We'll rant, and we'll roar
Like true-born young whalermen
We'll rant, and we'll roar
On deck, and below
Until we see bottom inside the two sinkers,
Then straight up the channel, boys,
To Huasco we' - I was in Talcahuano last year, in a whaler,
I bought some gold brooches from the girls in the bay,
I bought me a pipe, and they called it a Meerschawm,
But it melted like butter on a bright, shiny day.
- I went to a party last night in old Tumbes,
They were plenty of girls there, as fine as you'd wish,
There was one young maiden a-chewing tobacco
Just like a young kitten a-chewing fresh fish!
- Farewell to you girls of old Talcahuano,
Farewell to you girls of old Maui,
Come, let us be merry, don't be melancholy!
I can't marry you all, or in choky I'd be.
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