Rolling Along
It's a long way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea
The topsails are full, but we're light on the breeze
With a good clip down channel, and the passage looks calm
And there's naught like a clipper, just rollin' along
Rollin' along, boys, rollin' along
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
'Tween the skeleton beach and the Cape of Good Hope
There's sandbars and reefs, boys, and they'll give you a grope
To you skippers so darin', don't act too cocksure
Or your ship may be wrecked, and you'll sail her no more
Sail her no more, boys, sail her no more
Or your ship may be wrecked, and you'll sail her no more
There's pirates in waiting and storms to be tamed
The shoals all bear names of the ships that they claimed
But under our feet, the warm waters that roll
Are blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold
Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold
As blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold
Now our cargo is loaded and we catch the dawn tide
I can bare see the vessels I race for the prize
In the docks back in London, they wait for to see
The sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea
First stalk of tea, boys, first stalk of tea
For the sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea
Catchin' the westerly's haul, every hand
Pile on the canvas, drop all she can stand
For heart and for home, I hear calling me on
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
Rollin' along, boys, rollin' along
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
Rollin' along, boys, rollin' along
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
The topsails are full, but we're light on the breeze
With a good clip down channel, and the passage looks calm
And there's naught like a clipper, just rollin' along
Rollin' along, boys, rollin' along
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
'Tween the skeleton beach and the Cape of Good Hope
There's sandbars and reefs, boys, and they'll give you a grope
To you skippers so darin', don't act too cocksure
Or your ship may be wrecked, and you'll sail her no more
Sail her no more, boys, sail her no more
Or your ship may be wrecked, and you'll sail her no more
There's pirates in waiting and storms to be tamed
The shoals all bear names of the ships that they claimed
But under our feet, the warm waters that roll
Are blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold
Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold
As blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold
Now our cargo is loaded and we catch the dawn tide
I can bare see the vessels I race for the prize
In the docks back in London, they wait for to see
The sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea
First stalk of tea, boys, first stalk of tea
For the sails of our clipper and the first stalk of tea
Catchin' the westerly's haul, every hand
Pile on the canvas, drop all she can stand
For heart and for home, I hear calling me on
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
Rollin' along, boys, rollin' along
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
Rollin' along, boys, rollin' along
And there's naught like a clipper just rollin' along
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Writer(s): David Robinson, Andrew Robert Yates, Jonathan Michael Peter Darley, Robert James Alexander Sattin
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