Roger McGuinn - South Australia [1997] video free download

In South Australia I was born

Heave away, haul away

South Australia round Cape Horn

We're bound for South Australia

Chorus

Heave away, you rolling king

Heave away, haul away

Heave away, oh hear me sing

We're bound for South Australia

There ain't but one thing grieves my mind

Heave away, haul away

To leave Miss Nancy Blair behind

We're bound for South Australia

Oh when I sailed across the sea

Heave away, haul away

My girl said she'd be true to me

We're bound for South Australia

I rung her all night I rung her all day

Heave away, haul away

I rung her before we sailed away

We're bound for South Australia

And now I'm on some foreign strand

Heave away, haul away

With a bottle of whiskey in my hand

We're bound for South Australia

And as we wallop around Cape Horn

Heave away, haul away

You wish to God you'd never been born

We're bound for South Australia

Notes

From the singing of A.L.Lloyd. A version was collected by Laura Smith from sailors in Tyneside and printed in her The Music of the Waters in 1888.