| Ready boys?
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| Da mate was drunk and he went below
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| To take a swig at his bottle-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| The bottle-o, the bottle-of-o
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| The sailor loves his bottle-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A bottle of rum, a bottle of gin
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| A bottle of Irish whiskey-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| Tobaccy-o, tobaccy-o
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| The sailor loves his 'baccy-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A packet of shag, a packet of cut
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| A plug o' hard torbaccy-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| The lassies-o, the maidens-o
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| The sailor loves the judies-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A lass from the 'pool, a girl from the Tyne
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| A chowlah so fine and dandy-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A bully rough house, a bully rough house
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| The sailor like his rough house-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A tread on me coat, and all hands in
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| A bully good rough and tumble-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A sing-song-o, a sing-song-o
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| The sailor likes a sing-song-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o
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| A drinking song, a song o' love
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| A ditty of seas and shipmates-o
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| So early in the morning the sailor likes his bottle-o |