Sea Shanty – Tow Rope Girls

Sea Shanty – Tow Rope Girls – Lyrics

There’s a ship in the tropics, rolling along,
With every stitch drawing, the wind blowing strong,
With the white caps around her, Breaking in spray,
Those girls have got hold of our tow-rope today!

She’s logging sixteen as she speeds from the south,
With the wind in her royals, with a bone in her mouth,
With a wake like a mill-race she speeds on her way,
Those girls have got hold of our tow-rope today!

Oh, and it’s haul away, girls, steady and true,
Polly and Dolly and Sally and Sue,
Mothers and sisters – sweethearts and all,
It’s haul away, all the way, haul away, haul, And haul!

Of cargoes and charters we’ve had our full share,
Of grain and of lumber – enough and to spare.
Of nitrates at Taltal and rice for Bombay,
Those girls have got hold of our tow-rope today!

Don’t you hear the good trade winds a-singing aloud,
A homeward bound shanty in the sheets and in shroud,
Oh, hear how she whistles in the halyards and stays,
Those girls have got hold of our tow-rope today!”

Oh, and it’s haul away, girls, steady and true,
Polly and Dolly and Sally and Sue,
Mothers and sisters – sweethearts and all,
It’s haul away, all the way, haul away, haul, And haul!

And it’s oh, for the chops of the channel at last,
And the cheer that goes up when the tug hawser’s cast,
The mate’s “that’ll do” and fourteen months’ pay,
For the girls have got hold of our tow-rope today!

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Oh, and it’s haul away, girls, steady and true,
Polly and Dolly and Sally and Sue,
Mothers and sisters – sweethearts and all,
It’s haul away, all the way, haul away, haul, And haul!