Excursion Around The Bay

Words & Music:

Johnny Burke (Great Big Sea)

 

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Well it was on this Monday morning and the day be calm and fine.

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To the Harbour Grace excursion with the boys to have a time.

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And just before the sailor took the gangway from the pier

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I saw some fella haul me wife aboard as a volunteer.

 

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"Oh me, oh my!" I heard me old wife cry.  "Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!"

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"Oh me, oh my!" I heard me old wife say,

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"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay".

 

We had full three hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight!

Left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright.

And meself being in the double, when a funny things they'd say.

They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay.

 

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Me wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green.

I fed her cake and candy, fat pork and kerosene.

Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed pure oil on her face.

And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbour Grace!

 

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My wife she got no better, my wife, me darling dear.

The screeches from her troll you could hear in Carbonear.

I tried every place in Harbour Grace, tried every store and shop,

To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop.

 

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She died below the brandies as we were coming back.

We buried her in the ocean, wrapped up in a Union Jack.

So now I am a single man, in search of a pretty face.

And the woman that says she'll have me, I'm off for Harbour Grace!

 

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