lowlands low

bryan ferry

our packet is the island lass

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there's a laddie howlin' at the main topmast

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the old man he's from barbados

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he's got the name of hammer toes

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he gives is us bread as hard as brass

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our junk's as salt as a bailer's arse

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the monkey's raised in a soldier's clothes

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now

where he got 'em from

no one knows

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we'll haul 'em high and let 'em dry

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we'll trice 'em up into the sky

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it's up aloft that yard must go

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up aloft from down below

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lowlands

me boys

and up she goes

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get changed

me boys

for your shore-going clothes

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