[Verse 1]
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A capital ship for an ocean trip
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Was the "Walloping Window Blind"
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No wind that blew dismayed her crew
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Or troubled the captain's mind
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The man at the wheel was made to feel
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Contempt for the wildest blow
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Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared
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That he'd been in his bunk below
[Chorus]
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So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
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A-sailing we will go
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I'll stay no more on England's shore
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So let the music play
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I'm off for the morning train
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To cross the raging main
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I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
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Ten thousand miles away
[Verse 2]
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The bos'un's mate was very sedate
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Yet fond of amusement too
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He played hop-scotch with the starboard watch
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While the captain tickled the crew
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The gunner he was apparently mad
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For he sat on the afterrail
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And fired salutes with the captain's boots
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In the teeth of a booming gale
[Chorus]
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So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
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A-sailing we will go
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I'll stay no more on England's shore
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So let the music play
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I'm off for the morning train
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To cross the raging main
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I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
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Ten thousand miles away
[Verse 3]
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The captain sat on the commodore's hat
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And dined in a royal way
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Off pickles & figs & little roast pigs
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And gunnery bread each day
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The cook was Dutch and behaved as such
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For the diet he served the crew
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Was a couple of tons of hot-cross buns
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Served up with sugar and glue
[Chorus]
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So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
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A-sailing we will go
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I'll stay no more on England's shore
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So let the music play
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I'm off for the morning train
F G7 C
To cross the raging main
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I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
F G7 C
Ten thousand miles away
[Verse 4]
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Then we all fell ill as mariners will
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On a diet that's rough and crude
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And we shivered and shook as we dipped the cook
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In a tub of his gluesome food
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All nautical pride we cast aside
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And we ran the vessel ashore
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On the Gulliby Isles where the poopoo smiles
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And the rubbily ubdugs roar
[Chorus]
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So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
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A-sailing we will go
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I'll stay no more on England's shore
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So let the music play
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I'm off for the morning train
F G7 C
To cross the raging main
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I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
F G7 C
Ten thousand miles away
[Verse 5]
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Composed of sand was that favored land
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And trimmed with cinnamon straws
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And pink and blue was the pleasing hue
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Of the tickle-toe teaser's claws
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We sat on the edge of a sandy ledge
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And shot at the whistling bee
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While the rugabug bats wore waterproof hats
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As they dipped in the shining sea
[Chorus]
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So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
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A-sailing we will go
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I'll stay no more on England's shore
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So let the music play
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I'm off for the morning train
F G7 C
To cross the raging main
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I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
F G7 C
Ten thousand miles away
[Verse 6]
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On rugabug bark from dawn till dark
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We dined till we all had grown
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Uncommonly shrunk when a Chinese junk
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Came up from the Torrible Zone
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She was stubby and square, but we didn't much care
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So we merrily put to sea
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And we left all the crew of the junk to chew
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On the bark of the rubabug tree
[Chorus]
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So, blow ye winds, heigh-ho
F G7 C
A-sailing we will go
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I'll stay no more on England's shore
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So let the music play
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I'm off for the morning train
F G7 C
To cross the raging main
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I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
F G7 C
Ten thousand miles away