Liverpool Gals Songtext / Lyric

When I was a youngster I sailed with the rest

On a Liverpool packet bound out for the West

We anchored a day in the harbor of Cork

Then put out to sea for the port of New York

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

For thirty-two days we was hungry and sore

For the wind was agin' us and the gales they did roar

But at Battery Point we did anchor at last

With the gig-boom hold to and the canvas all fast

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

Them boardinghouse masters was a-boarding us twice

And shouting and promising all that was nice

And one fat old crimp took a fancy to me

And he said I was foolish to follow the sea

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

Then being as a doorman is awaiting for you

With rations of liquor, and nothin' to do

Now what do you say, what would you jump up to

Says I you won't linger, and danged if I do

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

But the best of intentions they never goes far

After thirty-two days at the door of a bar

I dust off me liquor and what do you think

That rotten old skipper he's doctored me drink

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

The next I remember I awoke in the morn

On a three-sky-sailed yarder bound south round the horn

We 'ad no suit of oilskins and two pairs of socks

And an IOU nailed to the lid of me box

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow

Now all you young seamen take a warning by me

Keep an eye on your drink, when the liquor is free

And pay no attention to Reniour the whore

When you've had some, you'll lose all you owned on the shore

And it's row, row bullies row

Them Liverpool gals they have got us in tow