The ocean liner

The Ocean Liner

So Step on board (Step on board) the ocean liner,

Step on board without delay, me lads.

Step on board, there’s nothing finer,

And together we’ll sail away>

When I was a-fishing up in the Gulf

Out on the open sea

I think of those pretty girls back on shore

And wish that they were out here with me.

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Well I made up me mind to follow the waves

Hearing of good returns

And the very next morning I found myself prawning

And me stomach it began to churn.

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Working twenty-bloody-four hours a day

With me eyes hanging out of me head

Twenty-fours hours barely making a wage

And wish that I was bloody-well dead.

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Well I'm a long way from mother up here in the gulf

A long way from family

And I’m bloody long way from being a [insert career title *]

That my mother oh so wanted me to be.

Doctor, lawyer, ...?

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Well the Captain’s a big man, he stand so high

His head’s nearly touching the rigging

And the crew they’re all druggos and they’re so high

I think they’ve left the land of the living.

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Well we’re catching and shelling and sorting prawns

Till they bloody-well come out of our ears

And the cook gives me the shits in more ways than one

And I think I’m on my very last run