Cruising Round Yarmouth

Traditional

While cruising round Yarmouth
One morning in May
I spied a fair vessel
who do me did say
I’m a fast going packet
Me kind sir says she
I’m ready for cargo
Me hold is quite free

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Fal di ra letty right fal di ral day

Now as to her origins
I can’t tell you much
By the cut of her riggin’
I’d say she was Dutch
I threw her my howser and I took her in tow
Broad in the stern she was bluff in the bow

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Fal di ra letty right fal di ral day

Well she took me upstairs and her tops’ls she lowered
in her neat little parlour she soon had me moored
She lowered her stuns’ls t’gallants and all
With a lily white hand on me reef tackle fall

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Soon I says ye fair maiden it’s time to give oar
For betwixt wind and water you’ve run me ashore
Me shot lockers empty
Powders all spent
Can’t fire a shot for I’m clogged at the vent!

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Fal di ra letty right fal di ral day

So here’s luck to the girl with the long curling locks
Here’s luck to the girl, ran Jack on the rocks
Here’s luck to the doctor who eased all me pain
Squared me main yard and I’m cruising again

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Fal di ra letty right fal di ral day
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