Stormy Weather Boys

Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com

We're laying in Surrey Dock one day
When the mate told us to get under way

CHORUS after each verse:
Stormy weather boys stormy weather boys

When the wind blows our barge will go

He's homeward bound but he's out of luck
Cause the skipper's half drunk in the Dog and Duck

Then the skipper came aboard with a girl on his arm
He's going to give up barging and take a farm

So the mate ran forward and the cook fell in the dock
And the skipper caught his knickers in the mainsheet block

We shored her off and away did go
But the skipper's got a bottle of beer below

She fills away and she sails like heck
But there ain't no bargemen up on deck

Then up comes a mermaid covered in mud
So we took her down in the fo'csle and had a good time

Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com