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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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Oh, I always loved seafarin' life, I bid my love adieu
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I shipped as steward and cook, me boys, on board the Kangaroo
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away through Milford Bay onboard the Kangaroo
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"Think of me, oh 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 thruppenny bit, it'll make you bear in mind
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That lovin' trustin' faithful heart you left in tears behind."
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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 and could not say goodbye
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"I won't 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."
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away through Milford Bay onboard the Kangaroo
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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
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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 that drives the van for Chaplin, Son and Co.
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away through Milford Bay onboard the Kangaroo
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Here's a health to dreams of married life, to soap, to suds and blue
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Heart's true love and patent starch and washin' 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
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Oh, 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 bailer in a laundry for one and nine a day
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Oh I never thought she would prove false or either prove untrue
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As we sailed away through Milford Bay onboard the Kangaroo
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