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🎶 The Congo she’s a mighty river 🎶

🎶 May the sharks have his body and the devil have his soul 🎶

🎶 And also Little Boy Billee 🎶

🎶 Haul on the bowline, it’s a weary way to Liverpool 🎶

🎶 She ran off with a Quaker 🎶

🎶 Oh, the bully boat’s a-comin’, an’ the gals is all a-waitin’ 🎶

🎶 When the Yankee Kearsarge hove in view 🎶

🎶 Haul on the bowline, the bully ship’s a-rollin’ 🎶

🎶 Dan kan ik haar weer betalen 🎶

🎶 By drinking grog I lost my head and you my fate could meet 🎶

🎶 Gosport girls they’re good at dancing 🎶

🎶 Steer clear of fat policemen, you’ll find it’ll pay 🎶

🎶 O whisky all around the town 🎶

🎶 He washed once in a fortnight 🎶

🎶 Then Paddy says: Pay attention now, these lessons you must learn 🎶

🎶 But for finding a way to spend your pay there’s none like Gosport Nan 🎶

🎶 The signal was made for the grand fleet to anchor 🎶

🎶 So I turned around to the window and I furled the window blind 🎶

🎶 I met her down in Louisiana 🎶

🎶 O whisky made me pawn my clothes 🎶

🎶 I thought I heard the old man say 🎶

🎶 Because he was so dirty 🎶

🎶 I wrote me love a letter, and I signed it with a ring 🎶

🎶 And that’s the way they school you at the house of Paddy West 🎶

🎶 They all drink vino an’ ask for more 🎶

🎶 Stern to stem she’s mighty fine 🎶

🎶 Oh mister, oh mister, you do me great wrong 🎶

🎶 When the wind is wild with shouting 🎶

🎶 Oh mes boués, ouh là ouh là là 🎶

🎶 He kapitein we nemen nog een borrel 🎶