A long, long time and a very long time WAY, HEY, HEY, UH! A long, long time and a very long time A LONG TIME AGO
In Frisco Bay there were three ships WAY, HEY, HEY, UH! In Frisco Bay there were three ships A LONG TIME AGO
A long, long time and a very long time (etc) And one of them was Noah’s old Ark All covered all over with hickory bark A long, long time and a very long time (etc)
They took two animals of every kind They took two animals of every kind A long, long time and a very long time (etc)
The bull and the cow they started to row The bull and the cow they started to row A long, long time and a very long time (etc)
Then said old Noah with a flick of his whip Come stop this row or I’ll scuttle the ship A long, long time and a very long time (etc)
The bull stuck his horn through the side of the Ark The little black dog he started to bark A long, long time and a very long time (etc)
So Noah took the dog, shoved his nose in the hole And ever since then the dog’s nose has been cold A long, long time and a very long time (etc)
We're homeward bound to Liverpool town Goodbye fare-thee-well, goodbye fare-thee-well Them Liverpool judies they all will come down Hurrah me boys, we're homeward bound
Them gals there on Lime Street we soon hope to meet And soon we'll be rolling both sides of the street
Then one to the other you hear them all say Here comes I and Jacky with eighteen months' pay
We'll meet those fly girls and we'll ring the old bell With them judies we'll meet there we'll raise bloody hell
Then I'll tell me old women when I gets back home The gals there on Lime Street won't leave me alone
We're a fine flashy packet and bound for to go With the girls on the towrope we can not say no
We're homeward bound, to the gals of the town So stamp up, me bullies, and heave it around
Oh, we're homeward bound, we'll have yous to know And over the water to Liverpool we'll go
Way haul away, we'll haul away the bowline Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe Way haul away, the packet is a rollin' Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe
When I was a little lad me mother always told me That if I didn't kiss the girls me lips would go all mouldy
Georgie Charlton had a pig and it was double-jointed He sent it to the blacksmith's shop to have its trotters pointed
Louis was the king of France before the revolut-i-on But then he had his head chopped off which spoiled his constitut-i-on
Once I had a Partick girl, her hair was golden yellow I kissed her on the brimming Clyde below the Armadillo
Then I had a East End girl, she lived up at her auntie's She took me to the Barrowlands and got me singing shanties
Well now I'm leaving Glasgow for the bonnie Bay of Mexico I thought I heard the Old Man say it's time for us to roll and go