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🎶 Ranzo, Ranzo Ray! 🎶
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🎶 And I thought to meself what jolly chaps were sailors 🎶
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🎶 The signal was made for the grand fleet to anchor 🎶
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🎶 The meat was as salty as Lot’s wife’s arse 🎶
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🎶 And who do you think was first mate of her? 🎶
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🎶 The Wellerman makes his regular call 🎶
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🎶 As far as I’ve heard the fight’s still on 🎶
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🎶 I’m off to meet my darling Jane 🎶
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🎶 From Queenstown to Dover’s a hundred miles or over 🎶
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🎶 It was laid in the yard of Jonathan Laird 🎶
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🎶 The northerly wind it begins to blow 🎶
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🎶 Oh the girls are waiting on the pier 🎶
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🎶 I’ll take her ’cross yon wide green water 🎶
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🎶 They’re all sold for beer and tobacco 🎶
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🎶 Way-ay-hey, shiny-O! 🎶
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🎶 It grieved him ten times more, brave boys, it grieved him ten times more 🎶
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🎶 Fire in the forechain, the bosun didn’t know 🎶
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🎶 An ample share of toil and care we whalemen undergo 🎶
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🎶 Aye, the skipper gave him thirty 🎶
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🎶 You cannot even stand up straight when the packet she’s a-rollin’ 🎶
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🎶 But now we’re bound for old St John’s where all the girls are dancing 🎶
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🎶 We’ll bury him deep around Cape Horn 🎶
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🎶 Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak 🎶
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🎶 He said it was his birthright 🎶
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🎶 And we’re waiting for the day 🎶