Lyrics Haul Away Joe - Robert Shaw Chorale

Haul Away Joe

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away the lowland
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
Way, haul away, the packet is a rolling
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
Way, haul away, we’ll hang and haul together
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
Way, haul away, we’ll haul for better weather
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
King Louis was the king of France
Before the revolution
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
King Louis got his head cut off
And spoiled his constitution
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
When I was a little boy
And so my mother told
Way, haul away, Way, haul away
That if I didn’t kiss the girls
My lips would grow all moldy
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away the lowland
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
Way, haul away, the packet is a rolling
Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!
Haul away Joe!
Haul away Joe!
Packet — a ship traveling at regular intervals
between two ports, originally for the
conveyance of mail.
Sung for short hauling jobs requiring a few bursts of great force,
such as changing direction of sails or hauling taut the corners
of sails.