The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45021   Message #665296
Posted By: Amos
08-Mar-02 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mudcat Tavern-at-Sea
Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Tavern-at-Sea
Haul away lively, buckos!! We're rounding the point by noon to pick up Capting Morse on the Downer Eastern shores, somewhere East of Boothbay, I believe....

Were you ever down on the Eastern Shore,
It really is a treat, Oh!
Way, haul away, we'll haul away for Rosie
Way, haul away, we'll haul away for Rosie, Oh.
Where the Baltimore whores in their purple drawers
Come runnin' out to greet you.


Way, haul away, we'll haul away for Rosie
Way, haul away, we'll haul away for Rosie, Oh.


Oh, when I was a little boy
My mother often told me;
That If I didn't kiss the girls
My lips would all get mouldy.


I sailed the seas for seven years
Not knowin' what I was missin';
Then I trimmed my sails before the gales
And started in a-kissin'.


Well, first I had an Irish gal,
Her name was Kitty Brannigan;
She stole me boots, she stole me clothes
She pinched me plate and pannikin.


And then I got a German girl
And she was fat and lazy,
And then I got a New York girl
She damn near drove me crazy.


And then I got a Frenchie girl
She took things free and aisy;
But now I have an English girl
An' sure she is a daisy.


So harken while I sing to you
About my darlin' Nancy;
She's copper-bottomed, clipper-built
And just my cut and fancy.

Bring her up, bring her up a point -- steady there...now, ready her asbout, and hard-a-lee!!!