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    "Liverpool Girls"genre: Folk
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    Credits: Roger McGuinn vocal, guitar, banjo

    Story Behind the Song
    Another song with a warning for for seamen.

    Lyrics


    G D G
    When I was a youngster I sailed with the rest
    G D G
    On a Liverpool packet bound out for the West
    G D G
    We anchored a day in the harbor of Cork
    G D G F
    Then put out to sea for the port of New York
    D
    And it's row, row bullies row
    G D G D G
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

    For thirty-two days we was hungry and sore
    For the wind was agin' us and the gales they did roar
    But at Battery Point we did anchor at last
    With the gidboom hold to and the canvas all fast
    And it's row, row bullies row
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

    Them boardinghouse masters was a-boarding us twice
    And shouting and promising all that was nice
    And one fat old crimp took a fancy to me
    And he said I was foolish to follow the sea
    And it's row, row bullies row
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

    Then being as a doorman is awaiting for you
    With rations of liquor, and nothin' to do
    Now what do you say, what would you jump up to
    Says I you won't linger, and danged if I do
    And it's row, row bullies row
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

    But the best of intentions they never goes far
    After thirty-two days at the door of a bar
    I dust off me liquor and what do you think
    That rotten old skipper he's doctored me drink
    And it's row, row bullies row
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

    The next I remember I awoke in the morn
    On a three-sky-sailed yarder bound south round the horn
    We 'ad no suit of oilskins and two pairs of socks
    And an IOU nailed to the lid of me box
    And it's row, row bullies row
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

    Now all you young seamen take a warning by me
    Keep an eye on your drink, when the liquor is free
    And pay no attention to Reniour the whore
    When you've had some, you'll lose all you owned on the shore
    And it's row, row bullies row
    Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow


    © 1999 McGuinn Music / Roger McGuinn

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