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A sailor needs a boat
A sailor needs a beer
I’m on the hunt for both
The bloody cost of living here!
Hey ho with the sand as a pillow
Curse your sails as they billow.
Hey ho I’m a hard working fellow
Land locked with an eye on the morrow!
Taught me all I know
The great majestic sea
But look at what I got to show
Look at what’s become of me
Done a stint across the ditch
Cap’n drove us to the brink
t’was us who made the bastard rich
I’d love to push him in the drink
I’ll tell you bout a dream I have
Where I can stay afloat
In it I’m a jolly lad
Then I wake up in his moat.
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Blow wind and crack your cheeks
(Hand over hand and shoulder to shoulder)
I ain’t seen land in fifty weeks
(My hands getting slow and my bones getting older)
Spent half my life across the line
(The bones of my brothers at the bottom of the ocean)
Staring back at the wake that boils behind
(“Brother come down and join us”)
Hand over hand and shoulder to shoulder
My hands getting slow and my bones getting older
The bones of my brothers at the bottom of the ocean
Sing out, “Brother come down and join us”
Sing of the girl I left on shore
Though I can’t remember her face no more
But I hear her voice when a warm wind blows
It beckons me down to the depths below
Hand over hand and shoulder to shoulder …
Heave-ho and break your back
Work your skin to the bone while the boss gets fat
In the deep I dwell with the ones I love
Staring back at the fools that toil above
Hand over hand and shoulder to shoulder … (× 4)
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Chorus
Do it for the love of family
Do it for the heart in all it’s pain
Do it for the weight of every day
Do it for the mates at sea
Flee the dirt
Heed the call
Leave the echo
City walls
Grip the wheel
Wait the night
We are kindred
Side to side
Know the stars
Know the breeze
Know the open
Hallowed seas
Take it deep
Straight and true
We are ancient
We are few
Ocean deep
Blue and vast
We are fleeting
Not the last
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Sailing
02:46
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Whaling
04:39
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Wellington Sea Shanty Society Wellington, New Zealand
Aotearoa New Zealand's Most 'Sea Worthy' Shanty Group™
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