When Our Ship Comes Home Lyrics
From the Joseph McGinnis Manuscript
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.