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Thread #10173   Message #68602
Posted By: Barry Finn
06-Apr-99 - 05:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Haul on the Bowline (#3)
Subject: Lyr Add: HAUL ON THE BOWLINE
I went looking for more verses to this version & it wasn't in the DT. So here's what I got. This version was recorded in the Bahamas in the 1930's.

So long, my boys, you been to sea
You cannot tie a bowline

Ch: Haul on the bowline the bowline haul

So long, my boys, you been to sea
You cannot tie a bowline

Ch: Haul on the bowline, the bowline haul

Grand Ch: A bowline, a bowline, you cannot tie a bowline
Haul on the bowline the bowline haul

Well, breeze & storm & sun & rain
I never seen a girl like Lucy Jane

I pulled her dress above her knee
She says"young man now let me be"

I'll tell me Ma when I get home
Them Windward girls won't leave me 'lone

They spend me money quick on shore
Pack me bag, to sea once more
^^