Fair Winds and Following Seas - Wellerman Sea Shanty

Come all ye fair and tender ladies Take warning how you court young men They're like a star on a summer morning They first appear and then they're gone. They'll tell to you some loving story And they'll make you think that they love you well Then away they'll go and court some other And leave you there in grief to dwell. I wish I was on some tall mountain Where the ivy rocks are black as ink I'd write a letter to my false true lover Whose cheeks are like the morning pink. Oh love is handsome love is charming And love is pretty while it's new But love grows cold as love grows old And fades away like morning dew. And fades away like morning dew...

You don't know, what you had You're gonna find, I ain't so bad When I'm gone, and you're alone, no one to give it to you Cause now I know, where its at That's right I'm wrong, it's such a drag That the bitch is back But not for long Any day now Any way now Winds of change they blow in my direction We both see that its time Go on cry don't say words of inspiration We both know that its time So walk on by So walk on by Sitting there, your little throne The queen of right, got no king of wrong To bring it on, you play it on, go find someone else You never felt this before I don't feel the same anymore Cause I don't need this shit going on Any day now Any way now Winds of change they blow in my direction We both see that its time Go on cry don't say words of inspiration We both know that its time So walk on by So walk on by Hanging clothes on the line Does a rush to my time Me, I'm doing fine Then she sees me walk on by So walk on by So walk on by

I'm through with standing in line to pubs I'll never get in It's like the bottom of the ninth and I'm never gonna win Life hasn't turned out quite the way I want it to be (tell me what you want) I want a huge sail that'll hold the squalls And a big black ship with some cannonballs Don't wanna join Davy Jones twenty thousand Leagues under the sea (so how you gonna do it?) I'm gonna trade this life for fortune and fame I'd even roll my bed and change my name, we... We all just wanna be big rockstars Live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap We all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat And we'll hang out in the coolest bars In the VIP's with the movie stars Every good gold digger is gonna wind up there Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blonde hair And we'll hide out in the private rooms With the latest dictionary and today's who's who They'll get you anything with that evil smile Everybody's got a rum dealer on speed dial Hey, I wanna be a rockstar Gonna sing those songs that offend the censors Singing those songs that offend the censors Popping my pills from a Pez dispenser (rockstars don't do mornings) Get washed up sailors writing all our songs Get washed up sailors writing all our songs Lipsync them every night so I don't get them wrong We'll sing them dusk till morning, we We all just wanna be big rockstars Live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap We'll all stay skinny 'cause we just won't eat And we'll hang out in the coolest bars In the VIP's with the movie stars Every good gold digger's gonna wind up there Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blonde hair And we'll hide out in the private rooms With the latest dictionary and today's who's who They'll get you anything with that evil smile Everybody's got a rum dealer on speed dial Hey, I wanna be a rockstar Everybody's got a rum dealer on speed dial Hey, I wanna be a rockstar

There once was a ship that put to sea And the name of that ship was the Billy o' Tea The winds blew hard, her bow dipped down Blow, me bully boys, blow She had not been two weeks from shore When down on her a right whale bore The captain called all hands and swore He'd take that whale in tow Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go We'll take our leave and go She had not been two weeks from shore When down on her a right whale bore The captain called all hands and swore He'd take that whale in tow Before the boat had hit the water The whale's tail come up and caught her All hands to the side Harpooned and fought her When she dived down below Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, whe the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come To bring us sugar and tea and rum One day, when the tonguin' is done We'll take our leave and go Soon may the Wellerman come One day, when the tonguing' is done Soon may the Wellerman come One day, when the tonguing' is done We'll take our leave and go