H.M.S. Rose off Ferryland, August 1995. Printed from shanty.rendance.org Site contents © 1993-2009 Andrew Draskóy excepting product images and lyrics.
Heave Away - Newfoundland, attributed to Pius Power Sr.

Come get your duds in order
  For we're going to leave tomorrow
Heave away, me jollies, heave away
Come get your duds in order
  For we're going to cross the water
Heave away me jolly boys, we're all bound away

Sometimes we're bound for Liverpool
  Sometimes we're bound for Spain
But now we're bound for St. John's town
  To watch the girls a-dancing

Now it's farewell Maggie darling
  For it's now I'm going to leave you
You promised me you'd marry me
  But how you did deceive me

I wrote me love a letter
  And I signed it with a ring
I wrote me love a letter
  I was on the Jenny Lind

Sometimes we're bound for Liverpool
  Sometimes we're bound for Spain
But now we're bound for St. John's town
  To watch the girls a-dancing