Music Of The Waters - online book
Sailors' Chanties, Songs Of The Sea, Boatmen's, Fishermen's,
Rowing Songs,
& Water Legends with lyrics & sheet music
| Share page | Visit Us On FB |
|
|
||
|
52 Music of the Waters. |
||
|
|
||
 |
||
|
|
||
|
" Handy Jim/' a long-rope hauling chanty, I am told is a Portsmouth favourite :— |
||
|
|
||
 |
||
|
|
||
|
Solo.—" I'm Handy Jim from Caro-line, Chorus.—So handy, me boys, so handy."
(The chorus is throughout the same, and follows each line of the solo.)
Solo.—" I courted a girl named Sarah Jane, So handy, me boys, so handy. Sarah Jane was a kitchen maid, And ofttimes into her kitchen I strayed, And had a good blow-out of something hot. But one fine night, through my good luck, The missus came home—in the copper I got; But the missus had come the clothes for to wash. The fire being lit the copper got hot, And the missus she came to stir up the pot, And out I jumped, all smoking hot, The missus she fainted, and cried * Stop thief! ' But I was off like a shot of a gun. |
||
|
|
||