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Sea Shanties
Ewan MacColl Lyrics


Paddy Doyle To me way ay, ay-ay, yah! We'll pay Paddy Doyle for…
Row Bullies Row From Liverpool to 'Frisco a-rovin' I went For the stay in…
Stormalong Oh, poor old Stormy's dead and gone Storm along boys! Storm…
The Flying Cloud My name is William Hollander, as you will understand I was…
The Gauger There was a sailor brisk and neat A bonnie lassie he…
The Handsome Cabin Boy It's of a pretty female as you may understand, Her mind…
The Ship In Distress You seamen all who plow the ocean see dangers landsmen…


Steven Christian Amendola


on There's Cauld Kale in Aberdeen

There's cauld kail in Aberdeen,
⁠And custocks in Stra'bogie,
Where ilka lad maun ha'e his lass,
⁠But I maun ha'e my cogie.
⁠For I maun ha'e my cogie, Sirs,
⁠I canna want my cogie;
⁠I wadna gi'e my three-gir'd cog
⁠For a' the wives in Bogie.

Johnny Smith has got a wife
⁠Wha scrimps him o' his cogie:
But were she mine, upon my life,
⁠I'd dook her in a bogie.
⁠For I maun ha'e my cogie, sirs,
⁠I canna want my cogie;
⁠I wadna gi'e my three-gir'd cog
⁠For a' the wives in Bogie.

These are the lyrics of these two verses on WikiSource. I'm not entirely fluent in Scots so I'm not sure if Ewan Maccoll's delivery of the last line in either verse is here consistent with this text, especially as Maccoll also says "Then fie, gi'e me my cogie" rather than "But I maun ha'e my cogie." I can't quite hear what he actually says in the last line.

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