From Boston Town we're bound away
Heave away Sante Anno
Around Cape Horn to Frisco Bay
We're bound for Californio
So heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away Sante Anno
Heave her up and away we'll go
We're bound for Californio
She's a fast clipper ship and a bully good crew
Heave away Sante Anno
A down knees Yankee for her skipper too
We're bound for Californio
So heave her up...
Back in the days of '49
Heave away Sante Anno
Those were the days of the good old wine
We're bound for Californio
So heave her up...
When I leave ship, I'll settle down
Heave away Sante Anno
I'll marry a girl named Sally Brown
We're bound for Californio
So heave her up...
There's plenty of gold, so I've been told
Heave away Sante Anno
Way down in Californio
We're bound for Californio
So heave her up and away we'll go
Heave away Sante Anno
Heave her up and away we'll go
We're bound for Californio
We come on the sloop John B, my grandfather and me
'Round Nassau town we did roam
Drinkin' all night, got into a fight
I feel so break up, I want to go home
So hoist up the John B sails, see how the main sail sets
Send for the Captain ashore, let me go home
Please let me alone, I want to go home
I feel so break up, I want to go home
The first mate, oh, he got drunk, he broke up the people's trunk
Constable had to come and take him away
Sheriff John Stone please let me alone
I feel so break up, I want to go home
So hoist up the John B sails, see how the main sail sets
Send for the Captain ashore, let me go home
Please let me alone, I want to go home
I feel so break up, I want to go home
The cook he got the fits, ate up all of my grits
Then he went and ate up all of my corn
O let me go home, please let me go home
This is the worst trip I've ever been on
So hoist up the John B sails, see how the main sail sets
Send for the Captain ashore, let me go home
Please let me alone, I want to go home
I feel so break up, I want to go home
Guitar chords for Sloop John B
C
We come on the sloop John B, my grandfather and me
G7
‘Round Nassau Town we did roam
C,C7 F ——Dm
Drinking all night, got into a fight
C G7 C
I feel so break up, I wanna go home
C
So hoist up the John B sails, see how the main sail sets
G7
Send for the captain a-shore, let me go home
C,C7 F——Dm
Please let me alone, I want to go home
C G7 C
I feel so break up, I wanna go home
My girl's a corker, she's a New Yorker
I'd give her anything to keep her in style
She's got a pair of feet, just like two plates of meat
Yes sir, that how the money goes, Ta, ra, ra
Umpah, Umpah, umpah-pah
Stick it up your Jumpah-pah
She's got a pair of legs just like two whisky kegs
She's got a pair of hips just like two battleships
She's got a pair of arms just like two waving palms
She's got a pair of eyes just like two custard pies
She's got a nose just like a garden hose
She's got a mop of hair just like a grizzly bear
Yes sir, that how the money goes, Ta, ra, ra
Umpah, Umpah, umpah-pah
Stick it up your Jumpah-pah
Alternative version
My gal's a corker, she's a New Yorker
I buy her everything to keep her in style
She's got a pair of legs, just like two whiskey kegs
Hey boys, that's where my money goes-oes-oes
That's where my money goes, to buy my baby clothes I
buys her everything to keep her in style
She's worth her weight in gold, my coal black baby
Hey boys, that's where my money goes
When we go walkin', she does the talkin'
And when my arm's round her, how time does fly
She does the teasin', I do the sqeezin'
Hey boys, that's where my money goes
She's got a pair of eyes, just like two custard pies
And when she looks at me, I sure get a thrill
She's got a pair of lips, just like potato chips
Hey boys, that's where my money goes
She's got a pair of legs, just like two whiskey kegs
And when they knock together, oh what a sound S
he's got a pair of hips, just like two battle ships
Hey boys, that's where my money goes
She's got a bulbous nose, just like a big red rose
And when the lights go out, it really does shine
She wears silk underwear, I wear my latest pair
Hey boys, that's where my money goes
Stanley and Dora was lovers
They met down the Tottenham Court Road
A whoopin' it up at the Palais
Where the ice cream fountains flowed
He was her man, a Lonny Donegan fan
Now Dora worked at the Dominion
The best usherette in the flicks
She sold Stan a ticket for one and nine
Wot did oughta cost four and six
He left his cosh in his mackintosh
Well Dora was swiftly promoted
To the circle she rose in a dream
When who should she see but young Stanley
Wiv the chick wot sold ice-cream
He'd chucked her up for a Walls' Ice Cup
But justice came soon to poor Dora
For Stan and his Walls' ice cream
They both was killed in the rush for the exit
When they played God Save the Queen
Guitar chords for Stanley and Dora
E7
Stanley and Dora was lovers
They met down the Tot'nam Court Road
A7
A whoopin' it up at the Palais
E7
Where the ice cream fountains flowed
B7 E7
He was her man, a Lonny Donnegan fan
A bi O (A bi O)
A bi O (A bi O)
A bi O bi O bi a ma ma (A bi O bi O bi a ma ma)
Bi O bi O bi a ma ma (Bi O bi O bi a ma ma)
Life is butter
Life is butter
Melancholy flower
Melancholy flower
Life is but a melon
Life is but a melon
Cauliflower
Cauliflower
There's a world of sun and sand, full of sky and far from land
Where evening breezes caress the shore like a gentle comforting hand
Fragrant blossoms, honey bees, careless laughter upon the breeze
And lovers fade into pools of deep purple shadows among the trees
Listen to the ocean, echoes of a million seashells, for ever its motion
Moving to a rhythmic and unwritten music that's played eternally
The sound of a seagull's distant cry, His wings like parentheses drawn in the sky
And two white birds clinging like foam to the crest of a wave rolled by
The silence of noon, the glamour of night
The hunt of the day when the fish won't bite
These are the things that remind me of the day you sailed out of sight
Love, oh love, oh careless love (x3)
Can't you see what careless love can do.
Sorrow, sorrow to my heart (x3)
That my true love and I must part.
When my apron strings did bow (x3)
You followed me through sleet and snow.
Now my apron strings won't pin (x3)
You pass my door and won't come in.
Cried last night and the night before (x3)
Gonna cry tonight and never no more.
Love my momma and my poppa too (x3)
But I'd leave them both to go with you.
How I wish that train would come (x3)
And take me back where I come from.
Wade in the water, wade in the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water
Wade in the water, wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Why don't you wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long, long way from home
I wanna die easy when I die
I wanna die easy when I die
I wanna die easy when I die
Shout salvation when I rise
I wanna die easy when I die
No more auction block for me, no more, no more
No more driver's lash for me
No more pint of salt for me
No more peck of corn for me
No more auction block for me, many thousands gone
No more driver's lash for me
No more pint of salt for me
No more peck of corn for me