The Captain's Shanty

Elliot Crawford Finch



I've been a sailor since my birth

YO HO HO AND A RUDDY BUM BUM

Left my home, for all it's worth

YO HO HO AND A RUDDY BUM BUM



CHORUS

Lime, scurvy, ambergris and marmalade

Hoist the petard and we'll haul away the bully boys

Lime, scurvy, ambergris and blubber, we're

Bound for Cincinnati



Fifteen years and we haven't seen a shore leave

Heave! Heave!



Sight the bowsprit, down the grog

Carve the turkey in the log

Come the day she's out of port

Keel the bosun o'er the thwart



Through a fluke the spout did wail

And that's the end of my scrimshaw tale



@sailor @parody @humor

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