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The Good Ship Calibar

from Loose Cannons by The Jolly Rogers

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Come all ya dry land sailors and listen to me song.
It's only forty verses and I won't detain you's long.
It's all about the adventures of this old Lisburn tar.
Who sailed as man before the mast on the good ship Calibar.
Now the Calibar was a spanking craft, pitch bottomed fore and aft.
Her helm, it stuck out far behind and her wheel was a great big shaft.
With half a gale to fill her sail, she'd do a knot per hour.
She's the fastest craft on the Lagan Canal and she's only one horse power.
Now, the captain was a strapping lad who stood just four foot two.
His eyes was red and his nose was green and his cheeks was a prussian blue.
He wore a leather medal that he won in the Crimea War.
And the captain's wife was the passenger cook on the good ship Calibar.
Now, the captain say to me 'Me lad, look here, me lad' says he.
'Would you like to be a sail-i-ar and sail the raging sea?
Would you like to be a sail-i-ar on foreign seas to roll.
Instead of the road to Portadown with a half a ton of coal'.
It was early the morning, the weather had been sublime.
While going along by the old Queen's Bridge, we heard the Albert chime.
When going along the gaswork straits, a very dangerous part.
We ran ahole on a lump of coal that wasn't marked down on the chart.
Then we all became cunfuse-i-ed and the stormy winds did blow.
The bos'n slipped on an orange peel, fell into the hold below.
'Put on more speed', the captain cried 'for we are sorely pressed'.
But the engineer from the bank replied - 'The horse is doing his best'
Then we all fell into the water and we all let out a roar.
There was a farmer standing there and he threw us the end of his galloses,
And he pulled us all ashore.
No more I'll be a sailor or sail the raging course.
And the next time I go to Portadown, I'll go by my bloody horse!

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from Loose Cannons, released September 1, 2007

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The Jolly Rogers Kansas City, Missouri

Pirates before pirates were cool. The Jolly Rogers were born as the Earth still cooled, waaaay back in 1991. Bringing maritime music, sea shanties, drinking and bawdy songs to audiences before pirates were all the rage, they've been a main stage act at venues across America and Europe. ... more

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