Misc Traditional – A Capital Ship (Guitar)

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A capital ship for an ocean trip

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Was the "Walloping Window Blind"

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No wind that blew dismayed her crew

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Or troubled the captain's mind

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The man at the wheel was made to feel

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Contempt for the wildest blow

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Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared

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That he'd been in his bunk below

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      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho

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      A-sailing we will go

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      I'll stay no more on England's shore

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      So let the music play

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      I'm off for the morning train

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      To cross the raging main

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      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove

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      Ten thousand miles away

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The bos'un's mate was very sedate

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Yet fond of amusement too

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He played hop-scotch with the starboard watch

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While the captain tickled the crew

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The gunner he was apparently mad

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For he sat on the afterrail

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And fired salutes with the captain's boots

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In the teeth of a booming gale

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      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho

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      A-sailing we will go

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      I'll stay no more on England's shore

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      So let the music play

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      I'm off for the morning train

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      To cross the raging main

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      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove

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      Ten thousand miles away

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The captain sat on the commodore's hat

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And dined in a royal way

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Off pickles & figs & little roast pigs

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And gunnery bread each day

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The cook was Dutch and behaved as such

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For the diet he served the crew

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Was a couple of tons of hot-cross buns

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Served up with sugar and glue

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      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho

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      A-sailing we will go

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      I'll stay no more on England's shore

         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play

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      I'm off for the morning train

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      To cross the raging main

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      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove

          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away

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Then we all fell ill as mariners will

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On a diet that's rough and crude

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And we shivered and shook as we dipped the cook

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In a tub of his gluesome food

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All nautical pride we cast aside

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And we ran the vessel ashore

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On the Gulliby Isles where the poopoo smiles

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And the rubbily ubdugs roar

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      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho

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      A-sailing we will go

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      I'll stay no more on England's shore

         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play

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      I'm off for the morning train

         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main

                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove

          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away

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Composed of sand was that favored land

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And trimmed with cinnamon straws

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And pink and blue was the pleasing hue

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Of the tickle-toe teaser's claws

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We sat on the edge of a sandy ledge

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And shot at the whistling bee

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While the rugabug bats wore waterproof hats

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As they dipped in the shining sea

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      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho

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      A-sailing we will go

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      I'll stay no more on England's shore

         F   C   G7 C  G7
      So let the music play

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      I'm off for the morning train

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      To cross the raging main

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      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove

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      Ten thousand miles away

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On rugabug bark from dawn till dark

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We dined till we all had grown

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Uncommonly shrunk when a Chinese junk

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Came up from the Torrible Zone

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She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care

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So we merrily put to sea

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And we left all the crew of the junk to chew

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On the bark of the rubabug tree

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      So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho

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      A-sailing we will go

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      I'll stay no more on England's shore

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      So let the music play

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      I'm off for the morning train

         F         G7     C
      To cross the raging main

                    G7   C      F      C
      I'm off to my love with a boxing glove

          F        G7    C
      Ten thousand miles away