Lyrics Stockholm Tar - The Spinners

Stockholm Tar

There’s a harness cask
in the sail locker stands
It smells your clothes
and stains your hands
On line, and twine
and captans spar
even in your grub
is Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
There’s a ten month pay
in my good pants
and after that
there’s a month’s advance
I’m going down
to Tamil’s bar
treat the little girls
to Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
I once met a girl
called Margaret Lee
she said 'come home
and sleep with me'
Her men was deaf,
but i didn’t get far
he slept down wind
of the Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Mary had a new shimmy
all new and white
I sat her on my knee
and we both got tight
When she got home
she told her ma
a scuttle boy
with his Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Did a trip once
in a steamboat line
covered in coal dust,
soot and grime
You’d choke on smoke
and black chattar,
and long for the smell
of Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Well i pull on me pants,
me money’s all gone
I’ll find me a ship
and then sign on
See tell all for
a fare well jar
Then he’s packing out to sea
and Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
And when I die
and I go below
I don’t want no fancy
mournin' show
No gilded coffin
or funeral pyre
just lay out me bones
in Stockholm Tar
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore
Liverpool Judies know the score
when a merchant seaman walks ashore