cd: Little Bits of Truth
track 9: Cabin Boy
Cabin Boy come down from the rigging
Cabin Boy come down from the riggingWildest boy in the harbor town, wearing your mum and the teachers down
Three months at sea with the Captain Brown, honest work‘ll turn the lad around
Cabin Boy come down from the rigging where the ould tri color flies
Cabin Boy come down from the rigging gonna bring you back alive
One night in the pub when the pints flowed free, his father and the captain and the priest agreed
They’d reign him in on the open sea, the best laid plans go awry you see
Chorus
Every port was a brand new trial, the boy’d run off with a hell bent smile
He was out with a gal on the red light mile when the drunken sailors found the child
Chorus
Climbing up the mast with a sailors ease, swinging from the spars like a chimpanzee
The captain frettin’ “can you watch him please? That boy’s gonna be the death of me”
Chorus
When dawn broke through from a pitch black night and we all cried “yo“ with the land in sight
Then we looked to the sails with a terrible fright as he dove from the top in the morning light
Chorus
Dulahan Music
Written by Kyle Aughe