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Blow Ye Winds in the Morning (II)

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Blow Ye Winds in the Morning (II)

It's advertised in Boston, New York and Buffalo
A hundred brave Americans, a-sailing for to go.

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     And blow ye winds in the morning
     Blow ye winds hi oh
     It's clear away the running gear
     and blow boys blow.

A hundred brave Americans? My God! That is a laugh,
For all of you in the NMU could never sail a raft.

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You call yourselves seamen but I say that is a lie
'Cause greedy little men like you could never qualify,

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In Lunenberg in Canada they build great wooden ships,
And boatswains play guitars instead of cat o' nine tail whips,

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Instead of diesel engines we've got sails and running gear;
The work is hard, but then we don't pollute the atmosphere.

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Now here we are on deck again, now what do you think of that?
And all of you in the NMU can go shit in your hat!

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(This version was sung on the HMS Rose in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia,
in the spring of 1971. It was a response to an organizing drive
by the NMU)
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