I Shant Go Back to Shanty Club

I Shant Go Back to Shanty Club

<I shant go back to shanty club, I shant go back again

I shant go back to shanty club to see my bosom friends

(oh I) shant go back, I can't go back, I won't go back again

I won't go back to shanty club 'cuz shanties never end>

Well that cursed Monday evening when i first found the dock

It all seemed calm before the storm, but then came 9 o'clock

I didn't sleep, I didn't eat, I sung all night instead

and all week long this seaman's song was stuck inside my head

<...>

Well the boss comes up this morning said Pat well don't you know

you're all bleary eyed on Tuesday, I'm afraid you'll have to go

well I asked for all me wages, was handed all me pay

and I cursed the cursed shanty club for taking me job away

<...>

Well my wife she's gone and left me, she's taken both the boys

She said 'you've changed, you're not the man who gave me all my joys'

You used to last for hours, but now when we're in bed

you'll flip me round and tuck me in and scrub the floors instead.

<...>

When I'm laying on my deathbed, with no one to mourn me

I'll curse the cursed shanty club for leaving me in poverty

I won't go up to heaven, to hell I'll haul away

Where I'll sing shanties all night long and all the bloody day

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