Passage to Grimsby
Words & Music: Traditional
(Recorded by POLES APART on The
Song Goes On)
Sailing over the Dogger Bank, wasn’t it a
treat?
The wind a-blowing ’bout East-Nor-East, we had to give her
sheet
You should’a seen us rally, the wind a-blowing free
On a passage from the Dogger Bank to Great Grimsby.
Chorus:
So! Watch her Twigger, she’s a proper ju-be-ju!
Give her a sheet and let her rip, we’re the boys to see her
through!
You should’a seen us rally, the wind a-blowing free
On a passage from the Dogger Bank to Great Grimsby.
Our captain he’s a shangeroo, he likes a drop of good ale.
The First Mate he’s another one too, been seen in many a jail.
The Bos’un he’s a bushranger and he comes from the African
Nile.
You ought to look at our old cook, he seems so wopiti-while.
Watch her Twigger, as down the street she came,
With painted lips and high-heeled shoes, Jenny is on the game.
She is one of them Flash-Girls, and can’t she cut a shine?
She can do the double-shuffle on the Knickerbocker Line!
We’re the boys to make a noise, when we come home from sea.
We get quite drunk & full of beer, and have a jubilee.
We get quite drunk and full of beer, and roll all over the
floor,
And when our money is all gone we go to sea for more!
