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Thread #56064   Message #875171
Posted By: Charley Noble
26-Jan-03 - 10:35 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Waterwitch (trad Australia)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Bound away on the water witch
Hah! now I know why that chorus struck a bell. This is a version of Hugill's "The Liverpool Packet", pp. 347-348, whose chorus runs:

Bound away! Bound away!
Through the ice, sleet and snow,
She's a Liverpool packet,
Oh, Lord, let 'er go!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble