The worst old ship that ever did sail

Sailed out of Harwich on a windy day

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And we're waiting for the day

Waiting for the day

Waiting for the day

That we get our pay

She was built in Roman time

Held together with bits of twine

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Nothing in the galley—nothing in the hold

But the skipper's turned in with a bag of gold

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Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak

Hear her poor old timbers creak

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We pumped our way round scalby Ness

When the wind backed round to the west-nor'-west

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Into the Humber and up the town

Pump you blighters—pump or drown

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