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Excursion Around The Bay
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Well it was on this monday morning
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And the day be calm and fine
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A harbour grace excursion
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With the boys who had the time
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And just before the sailor
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Took the gangway from the pier
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I saw some fellow haul me wife
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Aboard as a volunteer
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Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry
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Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!
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Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,
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"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"
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We had full three hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight!
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Left strong and regimental to make our spirits bright
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And meself being in the double, when a funny things they'd say
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They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay
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Me wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green
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I fed her cake and candy, fat pork and kerosene
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Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed pure oil on her face
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And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbour Grace!
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My wife she got no better, my wife me darling dear
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The screeches from her trollear could hear in Carbonear
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I tried every place in Harbour Grace,
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Tried every store and shop,
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To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop
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She died below the brandies as we were coming back
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We buried her in the ocean, wrapped up in a Union Jack
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So now I am a single man, in search of a pretty face
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And the woman that says she'll have me, I'm off for Harbour Grace!
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