Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics www.traditionalmusic.co.uk Oh Run, Let the Bullgine Run (Halliards Shanty) 
Oh Run, Let the Bullgine Run (Halliards Shanty)
 Oh we'll run all night till the morning Cho: Oh run, let the bullgine run, 
Way-yah, oh-i-oh, run, let the bullgine run.
 Oh we sailed all day to Mobile Bay
 Oh we sailed all night across the Bight (Australia)
 Oh we'll run from Dover to Callais
 Oh drive her captain drive her
 Oh captain make her nose blood
 She's a dandy packet and a flier too
 With a dandy skipper and a dandy crew
 Oh we'll run all night till the morning
 Phew! pass the rum mates I'm outa breath Derisive and somewhat primitive slang onboard ships for an engine. Possibly picked up from Negro American slang and used by sailors. The steam version was run from a "Donkey" boiler, and the term carried over to steamships who had Donkeymen as a rating for the engine room
 staff. Donkey Greasers and Greasers, Stokers became Oilers or Mechanical assistants when the INFERNAL (internal) combustion engine was invented. 
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