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The Liverpool Packet—Shanty
Bill Barber (of Stilly)
with Cadgwith Fishermen
We were going to sea—from the Waterloo Dock,
And the boys and the girls on the pierhead they flock,
To give us three cheers with a hearty weigh-ho,
She's a Liverpool packet—O Lord let her go.
Now a-ploughing our way—down the wild Irish sea,
Our passengers happy—as happy can be,
And all the sailors
say—as they walk to and fro,
She's a Liverpool packet—O Lord let her go.
Now we crossed o'er t' banks of Newfoundland,
Where the water's all shallow and the bottom's all sand,
Says all the little fishes that swim to and
fro,
She's a Liverpool packet—O Lord let her go.
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