Valparaiso Round the Horn - The Irish Rovers

Was a cold and frosty morning in December

When all of me money it was spent

Oh where it went to the log I can’t remember

So I down to the shipping office went

Sing Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back)

Take up yer' slack (Iake up yer slack)

Take a turn around your capstan, haul away!

(Haul away!)

All ship stations boys be handy

For we’re bound for Valaparaiso round the horn!

That day there was a great demand for sailors

For colonies, for Frisco and for France

So I signed aboard the limey barque the Hotspur

And got paralytic drunk on me advance

Sing Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back)

Take up yer' slack (Iake up yer slack)

Take a turn around your capstan, haul away!

(Haul away!)

All ship stations boys be handy

For we’re bound for Valaparaiso round the horn!

Well now I woke up in the morning stippin' sore

And I knew that I was on me way again

Oh when I heard a voice kickin' in the door

«Harry get up to yer bugger and answer to yer name!»

Sing Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back)

Take up yer' slack (Iake up yer slack)

Take a turn around your capstan, haul away!

(Haul away!)

All ship stations boys be handy

For we’re bound for Valaparaiso round the horn!

I wish that I was at the Jolly SailorSing Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back)

Take up yer' slack (Iake up yer slack)

Take a turn around your capstan, haul away!

(Haul away!)

All ship stations boys be handy

For we’re bound for Valaparaiso round the horn!

I wish that I was at the Jolly Sailor

Along with Irish Molly drinking beer

Then I thought, «What jolly lads were sailors?»

Then with me flipper I wiped away a tear

Sing Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back)

Take up yer' slack (Iake up yer slack)

Take a turn around your capstan, haul away!

(Haul away!)

All ship stations boys be handy

For we’re bound for Valaparaiso round the horn!

Sing Paddy lay back (Paddy lay back)

Take up yer' slack (Iake up yer slack)

Take a turn around your capstan, haul away!

(Haul away!)

All ship stations boys be handy

For we’re bound for Valaparaiso round the horn!

Oh yes we’re bound for San Francisco around the horn!