Paddy Lay Back
And all of me money it was spent (spent, spent)
Where it went to, Lord I can't remember (remember)
So down to the shipping office went (went, went)
Paddy, lay back (Paddy, lay back)
Take in yer slack (take in yer slack)
Take a turn around the capstan - heave a pawl (heave a pawl)
About ship, stations, boys, be handy (be handy)!
We're bound for Valaparaiser 'round the Horn!
The day there was a great demand for sailors (for sailors)
For the colonies, for Frisco and for France (France, France)
So, I shipped aboard the limey barque the Hotspur (the Hotspur)
And got paralytic drunk on my advance (vance, vance)
Paddy, lay back (Paddy, lay back)
Take in yer slack (take in yer slack)
Take a turn around the capstan - heave a pawl (heave a pawl)
About ship, stations, boys, be handy (be handy)!
We're bound for Valaparaiser 'round the Horn!
I woke up in the morning sick and sobre (sobre)
And I knew that I was outward bound again (bound again)
Then I heard a voice above me loudly calling (they calling)
Stay up men, and answer to your name (name, name)
Paddy, lay back (Paddy, lay back)
Take in yer slack (take in yer slack)
Take a turn around the capstan - heave a pawl (heave a pawl)
About ship, stations, boys, be handy (be handy)!
We're bound for Valaparaiser 'round the Horn!
It was on the quarter deck that first I saw him (saw him)
Such an ugly one she never seen before (seen before)
But there was a bum and stiff from every quarter (a quarter)
It made my poor old heart so sick and sore (sore, sore)
Paddy, lay back (Paddy, lay back)
Take in yer slack (take in yer slack)
Take a turn around the capstan - heave a pawl (heave a pawl)
About ship, stations, boys, be handy (be handy)!
We're bound for Valaparaiser 'round the Horn!
Well I wished that I was in the 'Jolly Sailor'
Along with Irish Kate a-drinkin' beer
And I thought to myself what jolly chaps were sailors
And with me flipper I wiped away a tear
Paddy, lay back (Paddy, lay back)
Take in yer slack (take in yer slack)
Take a turn around the capstan - heave a pawl (heave a pawl)
About ship, stations, boys, be handy (be handy)!
We're bound for Valaparaiser 'round the Horn!
Paddy, lay back (Paddy, lay back)
Take in yer slack (take in yer slack)
Take a turn around the capstan - heave a pawl (heave a pawl)
About ship, stations, boys, be handy (be handy)!
We're bound for Valaparaiser 'round the Horn!
Credits
Writer(s): Jonathan Robert Cleave, Michael William Hawkins, Jason Nicholas, Jeremy David Brown, Trevor Frederick Grills, Richard Peter Rowe, Christopher John Lethbridge, John Leonard Mcdonnell, Julian Nicholas Brown, John Anthony Brown, Louise Brown, Rupert Christie, Traditional
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