H.M.S. Rose off Ferryland, August 1995. Printed from shanty.rendance.org Site contents © 1993-2009 Andrew Draskóy excepting product images and lyrics.
The Banks of Newfoundland - English version

You bully boys of Liverpool
  I'll have you all beware
When you sail on them packet ships,
  no dungaree jumpers wear
But have a big monkey jacket
  all ready to your hand
For there blows some cold nor'westers
  off the banks of Newfoundland

We'll scrape her and we'll scrub her
  with holy stone and sand

For there blows some cold nor'westers
  on the banks of Newfoundland

We had Jack Lynch from Malnahinch,
  Mike Murphy and some more
I tell you well, they suffered like hell
  on the way to Baltimore
They pawned there gear in Liverpool
  and sailed as they did stand
For there blow some cold nor'westers
  on the banks of Newfoundland

Now the mate he stood on the fo'c'sle head
  and loudly he did roar
Come rattle her in me lucky lads,
  you're bound for America's shore
Come wipe the blood off that dead man's face
  and haul or you'll be damned
For there blow some cold nor'westers
  on the banks of Newfoundland

So now we're off the hook me boys,
  and the land is white with snow
And soon we'll see the pay table
  and we'll spend the whole night below
And on the docks, come down in flocks,
  those pretty girls will say
Ah, It's snugger with me than on the sea,
  on the banks of Newfoundland