Fourteen Rollicking Sailors 1931 JPitt-Payne

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 14Feb2014
2014

You've heard the song of Slippery Sam
and also Barracky Bert,
Ev'ryone knows KopperkaBan
that is a cert;
but here is a new refrain
about the rolling main
fortyseven ginger headed sailors
once were seen
thirty three were pensioned off
and it only left fourteen:

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea,
fourteen rollicking sailors
were happy as could be,
but when the ship it struck a rock,
they thought that it would sink,
then fourteen rollicking sailors
said: "Strike me rollicking pink!"

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea
fourteen rollicking sailors
were happy as could be
The Bo'sun said: "I hear my wife
has given me the chuck,"
then fourteen rollicking sailors
said: "Half your rollicking luck!"

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea,
one big rollicking stoker said:
"Death won't frighten me,
for if I die and go below,
quite happy I shall be."
Then fourteen rollicking sailors
said "So will rollicking we!"

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea,
Once they went on a jury
to try an old A.B.
The foreman said: "He wasn't drunk
and that we all can prove,"
said fourteen rollicking sailors
"We saw him rollicking move!"

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea,
The Captain lost his false teeth
where ever could they be!
They searched the coal
and found a lump
of toffee underneath
then fourteen rollicking sailors
said: "Here's your rollicking teeth!"

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea,
they all bought rollicking tickets
in the Irish Sweep with glee,
they all said: "If we draw a horse
we'll laugh ourselves to death,"
but fourteen rollicking sailors
drew their rollicking breath!

So fourteen rollicking sailors
sailed the rollicking sea,
fourteen rollicking sailors
a show once went to see,
the first turn was a tenor
and he'd only sung four bars
when fourteen rollicking sailors
blew out a rollicking "rarse"

These sailor men now
are very, very old
and it's quite plain, then,
that their story has been told,
in their homes they sit,
and their beards they knit,
so now we must bid them all "Adieu."

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Fourteen Rollicking Sailors 1931 JPitt-Payne
words & music by Leslie Sarony
© MCMXXXI by The Lawrence Wright Music Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 14 February 2014 at 18.52
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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