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I load up the
ships at Derry
Send the sailors on their way
Lorry loads and cargo trailors
Is all I work at every day
The times that
I’ve set sail beside them
They’ve regretted every one
No room for a seasick sailor
Too much work that must be done
I’ve tried every
pill and potion
Every wife and mothers tale
But 3 hours on the rolling ocean
Always leaves me at the rail
Three hours on the rolling ocean
Always leaves me at the rail
Once I got the
reputation
I set out to prove them wrong
Found a trawler needing seamen
I got the mate to take me one
The first two days
were like a millpond
I was buoyed up with pride
Then the weather turned against us
I defaced the leeward side
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Many men will
spend a lifetime
Toiling on the open sea
Sailing give a man his freedom
That’s the life I dreamt for me
Living out my true
vocation
Wasn’t meant to be I learned
With me fragile constitution
Life dealt me the cruelest turn
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