Rant & Roar: Sea Shanties Never Sounded So Good
If you like Sea Shanties, Tom Lewis, or Great Big Sea, you'll love Rant and Roar.
RANT & ROAR ....
This is a damn Sing-a-long!!!

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We have selected these old songs of the Sea with all you non singers in mind. So go ahead and shout, scream or yell them in any key, the guys who wrote them are dead and tomorrow is promised to none of us, so HAVE FUN

Cordially......Rant & Roar........................offer void where prohibited,

1. Paddy on the Railway
    Fidd-ley orey orey aye (x3) Working on the Railway
2. Roll Bullies Roll
Roll!!! Roll bullies roll, them Liverpool girls they have got us in tow
3. Dublin O'Shea
Have another drink boys oh have one with me, / we're home from the sea and we're back on the shore / and if you get too drunk boys in this company, we'll roll round Cape Horn on the Rory O'Moore
4. Mermaid
The ocean waves do roll / The stormy seas do blow / And we poor sailors a-skippin' at the top / with the land lovers lyin' down below / with the land lovers lyin' down below
5. Paddy West
So put on your Dungaree Jacket and give the girls a rest / And think of them cold nor'westers that blow from the house of Paddy West
6. Molly Maguires
Make way for the Molly Maguires / They're drinkers, they're liars but they're Men / Make way for the Molly Maguires / You'll never see the likes of them again
7. Maui
Rolling down to old Maui, me boys, rolling down to old Maui, / We're homeward bound from the Arctic grounds, rolling down to old Maui
8. Donegal Danny
So here's to those who are dead and gone / the friends that I love dear / And here's to you and I'll bid you adieu / Singing Donegal Danny's been here me boys / Donegal Danny's been here.
9. Loch Lomond
You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, And I'll be in Scotland afore ye, For me and my true love will never meet again, On the bonnie, bonnie banks of Loch Lomond
10. Roddy McCorley
For young Roddy McCorley goes to die on the bridge of Toome Today. (x2)
11. Bonnie Earl Of Murray
Ye highlands and ye lowlands / Oh where have ye been / They have slain the Earl of Murray / And layed him on the green / He was a braw gallant / And he rode at the ring / And the Bonnie Earl of Murray / He might have been the king
12. Bonnie Ship the Diamond
Cheer up me lads let your heart never fail / The bonnie ship the Diamond goes a fishin' for the Whale (x2)
13. Maggie May
Oh Maggie Maggie May / They've taken you away / To toil on those demon troubled shores / Cause you've robbed so many sailors / And you've done so many whalers / And we're not gonna take it any more
14. Patty Murphy
That's how they showed their respect for Patty Murphy / That's how they showed their honor and their pride / They said it was a sin and shame and winked at one another / Every drink in the place was full, the night Pat Murphy died
15. Sailor's Prayer
Oh Lord above, send down a dove, with beaks as sharp as razors / To cut the throats, of those dirty blokes, who sell bad Beer to sailors
16. Tipperary
It's a long way to Tipperary / It's a long way to go / It's a long way to Tipperary / to the sweetest gal I know / Goodbye to Piccadilly / farewell Leicester Square / It's a long long way to Tipperary but my heart's right there
17. Wild Rover
No Nay Never. (clap x3) No nay never no more. (clap x2) Will I play the Wild Rover no never no more
18. Whiskey in the Jar
With a Rum didda Rum didda ahhh / Whack fol the daddy o Whack fol the daddy o Theres whiskey in the jar
19. Windy Old Weather
In this Windy old weather, Stormy old weather
When the wind bloooooooooows We'll all pull together
20. Captain Ward
Come all you valiant seamen bold with courage beat a drum I'll tell you of a rover that o'er the sea did come
21. Rant & Roar
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee whale men / We'll rant and will roar, on decks and below / Until we spot Gayhead off old Martha's vineyard / And straight up the channel New Bedford we'll Roll
22. Ramblin' Rover
Oh there's sober men and plenty / And Drunkards nearly 20 / There are men of over 90 that have never yet kissed a girl But give me a Ramblin' Rover / Fay-Ort- Nee down to Dover / We will roam the country over and together we'll rule the world
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