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11It's a sunny pleasant anchorage, is Kingdom Come, It's a sunny pleasant anchorage is Kingdom Come
22Where crews is always layin’ aft for double-tots o’ rum, Where the crew is always laying after with double tots of rum
33‘N’ there's dancing ‘n’ fiddling of ev’ry kind o' sort, And there's dancing and there's fiddling of every kind o' sort
44It's a fine place for sailor-men is that there port. It's a fine palce for sailormen is that there port
55 ‘N’ I wish – And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there.
6 I wish as I was there.
76
87The winds is never nothin' more than jest light airs, The winds is never nothin' more than jest light airs
98N' no one gets belayin' pinn’d, n' no one never swears, N' no one gets belayin' pinned, n' no one never swears
109Yer free to loaf ‘n’ laze around, yer pipe atween yer lips, Yer free to loaf and laze around, yer pipe atween yer lips
1110Lollin' on the fo'c'sle, sonny, lookin' at the ships. Lollin' on the fo'c'sle, sonny, lookin' at the ships
1211 ‘N’ I wish – And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there.
13 I wish as I was there.
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1513For ridin' in the anchorage the ships of all the world, For ridin' in the anchorage the ships of all the world
1614Have got one anchor down ‘n’ all sails furl’d. Have got one anchor down and all sails furled
1715All the sunken hookers ‘n’ the crews as took 'n' died All the sunken hookers and the crews as took 'n' died
1816They lays there merry, sonny, swingin' to the tide They lays there merry, sonny, swingin' with the tide
1917 ‘N’ I wish – And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there.
20 I wish as I was there.
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2219Drown’d old wooden hookers green wi' drippin' wrack, Drowned old wooden hookers green wi' drippin' wrack
2320Ships as never fetch’d to port, as never came back, Ships as never fetched to port, as never came back
2421Swingin' to the blushin' tide, dippin' to the swell, Swingin' to the blushin' tide, dippin' to the swell,
2522N' the crews all singin', sonny, beatin' on the bell N' the crews all singin' sonny, beatin' on the bell
2623 ‘N’ I wish – And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there.
27 I wish as I was there.

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