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Lyrics for Rolling Down To Old Maui by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Rolling Down To Old Maui | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 220 | | | | Lyrics: | Rolling Down to Old Maui
It's a damned tough life, full of toil and strife
We
whalermen undergo.
And we don't give a damn when the gale has stopped
How hard the wind
did blow.
We're homeward bound! 'Tis a grand old sound
On a good ship taut and
free,
And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum
With the girls on old
Maui.
cho.
Rolling down to old Maui, my boys,
Rolling down to old
Maui.
We're homeward bound from the arctic ground
Rolling home to old
Maui.
Once more we sail with a northerly gale
Through the ice and sleet and
rain.
And them coconut fronds in them tropic lands
We soon shall see again.
Six
hellish months we've passed away
In the cold Kamchatka sea,
And now we're bound from the
arctic ground,
Rolling down to old Maui.
cho.
We'll heave the lead where
old Diamondhead
Looms up on old Wahoo.
Our mast and yards are sheathed with ice
And
our decks are hid from view.
The horrid tiles of the sea-cut ice
That deck the Arctic
Sea
Are miles behind in the frozen wind
Since we steered for old
Maui.
cho.
How soft the breeze of the tropic seas
Now the ice is far
astern,
And them native maids in them island glades
Are awaiting our return.
Even now
their big black eyes look out
Hoping some fine day to see
Our baggy sails running 'fore
the gales
Rolling down to old Maui.
cho.
And now we sail with a favoring
gale
Towards our island home.
Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done,
And we ain't got
far to roam.
Our stuns'l booms are carried away
What care we for that sound?
A living
gale is after us,
Thank God we're homeward bound!
cho.
And now we're
anchored in the bay
With the Kanakas all around
With chants and soft aloha oes
They
greet us homeward bound.
And now ashore we'll have good fun
We'll paint them beaches
red
Awaking in the arms of a wahine
With a big fat aching head.
@sailor @home
@whaling
collected by Stan Hugill
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