I Love To Be A Sailor
by Harry Lauder
submitted by Scott Hadley
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I
would do the same for you.
Verse
I
think I love a lassie, they say all sailors do,
I've
courted her for forty years or maybe forty two.
There's
no mistake about her. 'cause she is a dear wee dear,
And
everytime I sail away, I whisper in her ear.
Chorus
I
love to be a sailor, a sailor, a sailor,
I
love to sail upon the ocean blue, yes I do.
I
love to be a sailor, a sailor, a sailor,
Sailing
on the good ship Kangaroo.
Patter (spoken)
You
know when I was a wee, wee boy at the schoolroom, I used to hear them talking
about
a sailor having a wife in every port an, why of course mind you, that was
when I was
a
wee, wee boy! And when I hear anybody saying now that a sailor has
a wife in every port,
I
just say to mysel' "well, it's better to have a wife in every port than
have them all stuck up in
one
port." Ay, ay, ay, oh, but it's a grand life as a sailor. A sailor has
a free and open life. there
you
are you're way there out on the bounding, rolling, seething, ceaseless
sea from morning till
night.
Oh, I tell you ... I tell you there's nothing like a life on the rolling
sea.
Chorus (repeat)
Patter (spoken)
Sailing
on the good ship Kangaroo.