Unknown - Captains Shanty Lyrics

The Captain's Shanty
Elliot Crawford Finch

I've been a sailor since my birth
YO HO HO AND A RUDDY BUM BUM
Left my home, for all it's worth
YO HO HO AND A RUDDY BUM BUM

CHORUS
Lime, scurvy, ambergris and marmalade
Hoist the petard and we'll haul away the bully boys
Lime, scurvy, ambergris and blubber, we're
Bound for Cincinnati

Fifteen years and we haven't seen a shore leave
Heave! Heave!

Sight the bowsprit, down the grog
Carve the turkey in the log
Come the day she's out of port
Keel the bosun o'er the thwart

Through a fluke the spout did wail
And that's the end of my scrimshaw tale