From the Joseph McGinnis Manuscript

1. Come all you jovial shipmates
   That reef and furl the sails
   As we batter round Cape Horn
   In the cold and bitter gales
   There is a thought to cheer us
   As round the world we roam:
   It’s to kiss a pretty fair maid
   When our ship comes home.Chorus
   When our ship comes home
   When our ship comes home
   We’ll kiss a pretty fair maid
   When our ship comes home.
2. It’s not out on the main yard
   Or on the flying boom
   Or scraping bright a lower mast
   Neath a brilliant trade wind moon
   But to drink a pot of brown ale
   And blow away the foam
   And kiss a pretty fair maid
   When our ship comes home.
3. Each landsman has his wifeie
   And never goes to sea
   While we out on the topsail yard
   Are cursing bitterly
   But we know the day is coming
   As we batter through the foam
   When we’ll kiss a pretty fair maid
   When our ship comes home.
4. So now haul out to windward
   And out to leeward haul
   Make fast your straining reefpoints
   And man your halyards all
   Strike up a roaring shanty
   To speed us o’er the foam
   And we’ll kiss a pretty fair maid
   When our ship comes home.