Excursion Around The Bay Lyrics - Great Big Sea - Great Big Sea

Well it was on this monday morning 

And the day be calm and fine 

A harbour grace excursion 

With the boys who had the time 

And just before the sailor 

Took the gangway from the pier 

I saw some fellow haul me wife 

Aboard as a volunteer 

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Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry 

Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! 

Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say, 

"I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay" 

We had fourteen hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight! 

Left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright 

And meself being in the double, when a funny things they'd say 

They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay 

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Me wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green 

I fed her cake and candy, fat pork and kerosene 

Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed pure oil on her face 

And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbour Grace! 

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My wife she got no better, my wife me darling dear 

The screeches from her trollear could hear in Carbonear 

I tried every place in Harbour Grace, 

Tried every store and shop, 

To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop 

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She died below the brandy's as we were coming back 

We buried her in the ocean, wrapped up in a Union Jack 

So now I am a single man, in search of a pretty face 

And the woman that says she'll have me, I'm off for Harbour Grace! 

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