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[Verse 1]
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Once I was a waitin' man that lived at home at ease
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Now I am a mariner that ploughs the angry seas
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I always loved seafarin' life, I bid my love adieu
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I shipped as a steward and cook, me boys, on board the Kangaroo
[Chorus]
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away thru' Milford Bay, on board the Kangaroo
[Verse 2]
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Think of me, O think of me, she mournfully did say
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When you are in a foreign land, and I am far away
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Take this lucky truppeny bit, it'll make you bear in mind
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The lovin trustin' faithful heart you left in tears behind
[Verse 3]
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Cheer up, cheer up, my own true love, don't weep so bitterly
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She sobbed, she sighed, she choked, she cried, & could not say goodbye
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I wont be gone for very long, tis but a month or two
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When I will return again, of course I'll visit you
[Chorus]
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away thru' Milford Bay, on board the Kangaroo
[Verse 4]
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Our ship it was homeward bound from many's the foreign shore
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And many's the foreign present unto me love I bore
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I brought tortoises from Tenerife and toys from Timbuktu
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A China rat, a Bengal cat and a Bombay Cockatoo
[Verse 5]
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Paid off, I sought her dwellin' on a street above the town
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where an ancient dame upon the line was hangin' out her gown
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'Where is me love?' 'She's vanished, sir about six months ago
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with a smart young man who drives the van for Chaplin, Son & Co.
[Chorus]
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away thru' Milford Bay, on board the Kangaroo
[Break]
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[Verse 6]
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Here's a health to dreams of married life to soap suds & blue
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Heart's true love & patent starch and washing soda too
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I'll go unto some foreign shore, no longer can I stay
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And with some China Hottentot, I'll throw meself away
[Verse 7]
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Me love she is no foolish girl, her age it is two score
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Me love she is no spinster, she's been married twice before
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I cannot say it was her wealth that stole me heart away
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She's a washer in a laund-ery for one-and-nine a day
[Chorus]
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away thru' Milford Bay, on board the Kangaroo
[Outro]
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