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The Fiery Furnaces
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Quay Cur
I had a locket A little silver charm Given to me so to keep me out of harm Canvasing the quay side trying to earn my keep A killick tore it off my neck and threw it in the deep
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
Up to the quarantine, late night aboard Try to raise our fees but we get what they afford Busy work below deck according to form Waiting for the clear to leave but then comes up a storm
We hid beneath the barrels of blubber hoping that the rain had passed But when the wind kept up the rats cut down the rigging off the mast And then the rust chewed through the anchor chain and out to sea we're cast
The clouds dried and cracked It was calm and in fact The ship had been towed By sea Dyaks towed
So we're sold Kolaba And sent, I let out a sob A cry oh no it's disaster T-Ranter Bay Madagascar.
Great gulps of Greek fire get us in Sling sticks at the stockade Fort Dauphin A guardsman gave a griffin said grease my duke Down by the chimney and out through the fluke
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel A lungio lathback made me a proposal Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected Down in his dry dock erected infected
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked With nails out of driftwood already iron sicked Now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me Aand the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi
Course it wasn't long till I caught the croup Dawding on the drizzy deck of my majesty's sloop If only the helmsman would turn from his whip staff With my azimuth compass I'd go by the hectograph
Up to the whaling fleet in Gilbert sound Then back in the hull when we come around With one hundred seals and two polar bears Nearly in the harbor without any cares
But then A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel A lungio lathback made me a proposal Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected Down in his dry dock erected infected
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked With nails out of driftwood already iron sicked Now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me And the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi
Half-hour sandglass Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Seven saker round shot Ice for the moonshine And chichsaneg
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo Tie tight my sugnacoon In comes the tucktodo Aba in aob aginyoh.
Look awennye Get out my sawygmeg Yliaout, yliaout Weave us on shore
Unuiche quoysah Maconmeg And I gave a sasobneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo Tie tight my sugnacoon In comes the tucktodo Aba in aob aginyoh. Half hour sandglass Seven saker round shot Ice for the moonshine And 'chichsaneg'
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, don't say no Tie tight my coat In comes the fog Fallen down in the sea, go fetch
Look yonder Get out my knife I mean no harm, I mean no harm Weave us on shore
Give it, give it to me Will you have And I gave a bracelet
Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, don't say no Tie tight my coat In comes the fog Fallen down in the sea, go fetch
And now we live by muskles, water weeds with small relief in store And all the sick men in the Galean were then put upon the shore And on the twenty second we didn't see our general any more.
Down came our trestle-trees, no pitch tar or nails Fore shrouds break no rope we trust Only shift of sails
Drink my Rosa Solis, struck suddenly ahull Yield ourselves we spoomed, my sinews stiff My eyes were dull
And as we pass the equinoctial only five of us could stand And while the capsten without sheets or tacks by all of us was manned And on the eleventh day of June ran in at Barehaven to land And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
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