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Shanty Gospel

Written by Cindy Tonkin

A parody built off of Pirate's Gospel by Alela Diane

LYRICS

00:00 / 01:04

CHORUS

Yo ho yo ho yo ho ho

Yo ho yo ho yo ho ho

Sing the Shanty Gospel

Sing the Shanty Gospel


We all are bound for South Australia
We’re gonna round the old Cape horn
We’re gonna pass by Valparaiso
And be back by Tuesday morn.


CHORUS


We’ll step aboard the ocean liner
A full ten thousand miles away
we’ll heave a pawl by Santiago
molasses rum we’ll drink today.


CHORUS


We’ll be bully in the alley
we sing an ancient sailors prayer
We’ll all be shipwrecked while out whaling
Whether the seas be foul or fair


CHOURS


And when the hard times are all past us
when the good days are all gone
we’ll take the high road to shenandoah
The Onion ends the evening song


CHORUS

Tags:

Parody, Small Range/Easy to sing, Few Words/Easy to learn, Gospel, Meta-Shant

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We acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation, upon whose lands we gather and sing.
We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Numerous photos by Nick Ryden 

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