| Ocean Liner Contemporary Maritime Tune Words & Music © Barry Skipsey |
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| When I was
a-fishing up in the Gulf Out on the open sea I think of those pretty girls back on shore And wish that they were out here with me. Chorus: So Step on board (Step on board) the ocean liner, Step on board without delay, me lads. Step on board, there’s nothing finer, And together we’ll sail away Well I made up me mind to follow the waves Hearing of good returns And the very next morning I found myself prawning And me stomach it began to churn. Chorus Working twenty-bloody-four hours a day With me eyes hanging out of me head Twenty-fours hours barely making a wage And wish that I was bloody-well dead. Chorus Well I‘m a long way from mother up here in the gulf A long way from family And I’m bloody long way from being a [insert career title *] That my mother oh so wanted me to be. Chorus Well the Captain’s a big man, he stand so high His head’s nearly touching the rigging And the crew they’re all druggos and they’re so high I think they’ve left the land of the living. Chorus Well we’re catching and shelling and sorting prawns Till they bloody-well come out of our ears And the cook gives me the chills in more ways than one And I think I’m on my very last run. Chorus X2
[* David, Christie, Dean, Gina, Jon, Maggie] |
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Many thanks to The Boekaniers (and Bert Hobo in particular, who has since moved on from that group) for not only providing us with a copy of the lyrics, but an audio sample of the tune to refresh our memories. (Rewritten to flirt with the Bounding Main girls, of course). Bert said they got it from The Rocky River Bush Band. Maggie did some digging around and received this letter:
Further, apologies to Barry Skipsey for our customizing of his lyrics to fit our particular idiom. Click here to read Skip's letter to us regarding Ocean Liner. |
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