Shanty Net Sea shanties & folk songs

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Haul Away for Rosie O

4 May 2010

You may talk about your bootle girl wake up in the corner sally

Way haul away, we’ll haul away for Rosie

Way haul away, we’ll haul away for Rosie o

But none can push a joker like the girls of dog leg alley

Way haul away, we’ll haul away for Rosie

Way haul away, we’ll haul away for Rosie o

Once I had an Irish girl her name was kitty Flannigan

She stole me boots she stole me boots, she stole me plate and pattikan

Then I had an English girl, she wasn’t very sporty

Everything I asked of her she said it was too naughty

Then I had a gypsy girl her mother called her molly

Sometime she got drunk at nights and sometimes only jolly

And then I had a Baltimore girl and when she took the notion

She’d rise and fall as steady as the waves apon the ocean

Once in my life I married a wife, damn her she was lazy

She wouldn’t stay at home at nights, it bloody near drove me crazy

Stayed out all night o what a sight, where do think I found her?

Behind of the pub with sheets hauled up and twenty men around her