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The Black Ball Line
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I served my time on the Black Ball line
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To me way-ay-ay O Ri-o
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On the Black Ball line I served my time
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Hurrah for the Black Ball line!
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The Black Ball ships they are good and true
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And they are the ships for me and you.
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For once there was a Black Ball ship
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That fourteen knots an hour* could clip.
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You will surely find a rich gold mine
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Just take a trip on the Black Ball line.
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Just take a trip to Liverpool
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To Liverpool, that Yankee school.
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The Yankee sailors you'll see there
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With their high-top boots and short-cut hair.
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*I know. A knot is a rate of speed, and a knot an hour is bad
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Physics. Stan Hugill says that it was sung this way, though. Rg
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Recorded by lloyd and Maccoll- Haul On the Bowline.
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Filename[ blakball
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Rg
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