I was broke and out of a job in the city of London, I went down to Shadwell Docks to get a ship. Chorus: Paddy get back, take in the slack! Heave away the capstan, heave a pawl! heave a pawl! 'Bout ship and stations and be handy, Rise tacks and sheets and mains'l haul! 2. There was a Yankee ship a-laying in the basin, And they told me she was going to New York. Chorus: 3. If I ever lay my hands on that shipping master, I'll murder him if it's the last thing I do. Chorus: 4. When the pilot left the ship 'way down the Channel, O, the captain told us we were going around Cape Horn. Chorus: 5. The mate and the second mate belonged in Boston, And the captain hailed from Bangor down in Maine. Chorus: 6. The three of them were rough-and-tumble fighters, When not fighting amongst themselves they turned on us. Chorus: 7. They called us out one night to reef the topsails, Now belaying pins were flying around the deck. Chorus: 8. And we came on deck and went to set the topsails, Not a man in the bunch could sing a song. Chorus: 9. We are tinkers, we are tailors, and the fireman also cooks, And they couldn't sing a shanty unless they had the books. Chorus: 10. Wasn't that a bunch of hoodlums, For to take a ship around Cape Horn? Chorus:

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