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the revels chorus - anchor song lyrics

[verse 1]
hey, walk her ’round, heave her, heave her short again
over, sn+tch her over, there, and hold her on the pawl
loose all sail, and brace your yards aback and full
ready jib to pay her off and heave short all

[chorus]
well, ah, fare+you+well, we can stay no more with you, me love
down, set down your liquor and your girl from off your knee
for the wind has come to say, “you must take me while you may,”
if you go to mother carey, walk her down to mother carey
oh, we’re bound to mother carеy where she feeds hеr chicks at sea

[verse 2]
hey, walk her ’round, break her, break it out o’ that
break our starboard bower out, apeak, awash, and clear
port, port she casts, with the harbour+mud beneath her foot
and that’s the last of bottom we shall see this year

[chorus]
well, ah, fare+you+well, oh, we’ve got to take her out again
take her out in ballast, riding light and cargo+free
and it’s time to clear and quit when the hawser grips the bit
so we’ll pay you with the foresheet and a promise from the sea

[verse 3]
hey, tally on! aft and walk away with her
hansom to the cathead, now o’tally on the fall!
stop, seize, and fish, and easy on the davit+guy
up, well up the fluke of her, and inboard haul
[chorus]
well, ah, fare+you+well, for the channel wind’s took hold of us
choking down our voices as we sn+tch the gaskets free
and it’s blowing up for night, and she’s dropping light and light
and she’s snorting and she’s sn+tching for a breath of open sea

[verse 4]
wheel, full and by, but she’ll smell her road alone tonight
sick she is and harbour+sick, oh, sick to clear the land!
roll down to brest with the old red ensign over us
carry on and thrash her out with all she’ll stand

[chorus]
well, ah, fare+you+well, and it’s ushant slams the door on us
whirling like a windmill through the dirty scud to lee
till the last last fl!cker goes from the tumbling water+rows
and we’re off to mother carey, walk her down to mother carey
oh, we’re bound for mother carey where she feeds her chicks at sea

- the revels chorus lyrics

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