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HOMEWARD BOUND Lead: Richard

A capstan shanty from Stan Hugill's Shanties From The Seven Seas.

LYRICS:

Oh, we are homeward bound today
And soon we'll get our three years pay

Chorus:
For we are homeward bound, my boys
Hurraw, we're homeward bound

We're homeward bound to Liverpool town
Where all them gals they will come down

And when we gets to the Liverpool docks
Them pretty girls will come in flocks

Goodbye to the gals of old Callyo
Them Liverpool judies have got us in tow

Them Spanish gals we've left behind
Were fine and free and very kind

We'd sing and dance and have good fun
When we was on the outward run

But when the boys had had their fun
And all our money was all gone

The Madam in her best silk gown
Said, "Get up, Jack, let John sit down."

'Twas time for us to roll 'n' go
And give some other John a show

So now our pay-day soon will come
Up Paradise Street we'll have good fun

NOTES:

Another gem culled from Stan Hugill's Shanties from the Seven Seas. Hugill felt that this capstan song, in all probability, stemmed from the old forebitter, a process often repeated in the days of sail. This one doesn't appear in any other collection that I have found.