Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

The Cunard Dock - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
THE CUNARD DOCK Sung by Miss St. George Hussey. 
Behold in me a poor ould Irishman. Be happy more I never can, Through loving one Nancy Ann McGee, And now my folly I can plainly see. She fancied a boy from Mullingar, On the canal he was a bould Jack tar; He smelt of nasty pitch and wax, And he always was hitching up his slacks. 
Spoken-I imagined she was mashed and smashed, and crashed on me. Just as I was laving Dublin to swim to America with her on my back, I found-
Chorus. . She sailed away from Cunard dock, And the ship went wallop on a great big rock, And ever since that dreadful shock She's never been back to Patsy. 
She always swore she'd be true to me, And she called me her darling Patsy; But she gave me the shake and stole my cash, And then skipped off with her other mash. I ate raw onions to make me cry, And drank whisky, for I was dry; One day at the paper I did glance, And I read she was wrecked near Hoboken, France. 
Spoken-I felt sorry for Nancy Jane. But, says I to myself, she's in the say making a free lunch for the fishes, so I'll fish for somebody else. I wasn't long in getting a substitute. But I always sigh when I think of the day-Chorus. 
Nancy Jane, for whom I did weep and wail, Soon was swallowed by a great big whale; She lived six months inside his chest, And then the monster felt oppressed. He had taken too much Irish stew, So he opened his mouth and out she was threw: From land she was a thousand miles or more. But she didn't give up 'till she swam to shore. 
Spoken-I met her about a month after she'd left her private residence inside the whale. She says: "Patsy, my boy, I take it all back. You and I are two ever since the day "-Chorus.