[ti:Excursion Around The Bay]
[ar:Great Big Sea]
[al:Road Rage]
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[00:00.00]Excursion Around the Bay - Great Big Sea
[00:02.77]Well it was on this Monday morning
[00:04.18]And the day be calm and fine
[00:05.77]A harbour grace excursion
[00:07.32]With the boys who had the time
[00:08.97]And just before the sailor
[00:10.21]Took the gangway from the pier
[00:11.77]I saw some fellow haul me wife
[00:13.46]Aboard as a volunteer
[00:14.96]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife cry
[00:18.08]Oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die
[00:21.11]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife say
[00:24.26]I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay
[00:27.25]We had fourteen hundred souls aboard oh what a splendid sight
[00:30.33]Left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright
[00:33.56]And myself being in the double when a funny things they'd say
[00:36.49]They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay
[00:39.67]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife cry
[00:42.78]Oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die
[00:45.83]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife say
[00:48.96]I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay
[00:51.97]Me wife she got no better she turned a sickly green
[00:55.20]I fed her cake and candy fat pork and kerosene
[00:58.25]Castor oil and sugar of candy I rubbed pure oil on her face
[01:01.28]And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches harbour grace
[01:04.39]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife cry
[01:07.63]Oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die
[01:10.75]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife say
[01:13.85]I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay
[01:16.94]My wife she got no better my wife me darling dear
[01:20.19]The screeches from her troll ear could hear in carbon ear
[01:23.22]I tried every place in harbour grace
[01:24.93]Tried every store and shop
[01:26.46]To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop
[01:29.52]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife cry
[01:32.76]Oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die
[01:35.90]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife say
[01:39.12]I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay
[01:42.26]She died below the brandy's as we were coming back
[01:45.38]We buried her in the ocean wrapped up in a union jack
[01:48.56]So now I am a single man in search of a pretty face
[01:51.56]And the woman that says she'll have me I'm off for harbour grace
[01:54.67]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife cry
[01:57.95]Oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die
[02:01.14]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife say
[02:04.25]I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay
[02:07.49]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife cry
[02:10.61]Oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die
[02:13.66]Oh me oh my I heard me old wife say
[02:16.86]I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay