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Going Overboard

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Shanghaied in Valparaiso
We fetched-up in Bombay
They set us afloat in a leasehold boat
That steered like a bale of hay
We know the track to Auckland
The light at the Kinsale Head
We've crept close-hauled while the leadsman bawled
The depth of the channel bed
And away you Santee, my dear Annie
Oh, you Bristol girls, you love us for our money
We've panted in the tropics
While the pitch boiled up on dеck
We saved our hides, littlе else besides
From an ice-cold North Sea wreck
We know the streets of Santos and the river at Saigon
We've had a glass with a Chinese lass in houseboat in Canton
And away you Santee, my dear Annie
Oh, you Bristol girls, you love us for our money
They'll pay us off in London
And after a spell ashore
Again we'll ship on a southern trip
In a week or barely more
So, goodbye Mistress Quickly
It's time we were afloat
With a straw-stuffed bed, an aching head
A knife and an oilskin cloak
And away you Santee, my dear Annie
Oh, you Bristol girls, you love us for our money
Sing "Time for us to Leave Her"
Sing "Bound for the Rio Grande"
As the tug turns back we'll follow her track
For the last long look at land
As the purple disappears and only the blue is seen
Commend our bones to Davy Jones
Our souls to Fiddler's Green
And away you Santee, my dear Annie
Oh, you Bristol girls, you love us for our money
And away you Santee, my dear Annie
Oh, you Bristol girls, you love us for our money
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Bounding Main

Bounding Main

About “Bristol Girls” by Bounding Main

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"Bristol Girls" appears on "Going Overboard".

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