Lyr ADD: Gloucester Boys

Subject: Lyr Req: Gloucester Boys
From: GUEST,Shantyjohn
Date: 12 Jul 23 - 05:25 AM

Hi

I really need help with the lyrics to Gloucester Boys by X-Seamen's Institute (Hearts of Oak album, 1976). Just can't fund them anywhere.

Knowledgeable Mudcat peeps, can you help?

Thanks.

Shantyjohn

Subject: ADD: Gloucester Boys (Dan Aguiar)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jul 23 - 03:43 PM

Hi, John - how's this?

Gloucester Boys
Copyright Dan Aguiar 1973

GLOUCESTER BOYS
(Dan Aguiar)

I love Gloucester and I miss her,
And I’m longing to return.
All the blue skies rise above her.
For her shores I’ll always yearn.

CHORUS:
Gloucester boys they sail right handy.
All ashore they don’t feel right.
Gloucester girls are fair and handy.
Gloucester girls stay up all night.

Nantucket’s boys they had their whalin’
That was many years ago.
Gloucester’s ships are still out sailin’.
Every day they’re on the go.
Chorus:

I love a girl I call my Nancy.
She’s the one I long to see.
Not too plain and not too fancy.
In her arms I long to be.
Chorus:

I drink wine and I drink brandy.
To the maids I’ll drink my fill.
Nancy’s lips are sweet as candy.
I want her now and always will.
Chorus:

In the trawlers or the catboats.
Gloucester boys they stand alone.
You can name it and if she floats.
Gloucester boys can sail her home.

From the X Seamens Institute album album Heart of Oak
https://folkways.si.edu/the-x-seamens-institute/heart-of-oak/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-JsU17YM3I

Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Gloucester Boys
From: GUEST,Shantyjohn
Date: 13 Jul 23 - 06:50 AM

Many thanks Joe, that's exactly the one.