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EVENING SUN THE RIVER LAGAN BELFAST
The Cruise of the Callabar
1. Come all y' dryland sailors and listen till my song.
It's only forty verses so I won't delay yez long.
It's all about the advent-chiors of this ould Lisburn tar,
Who sailed as man before the mast aboard the Callabar.
2. The Callabar was a clipper ship, well-fastened fore and aft.
Her stern stuck out behind her and her helm was a great big shaft.
With half a gale to swell the sail she made one knot per hour.
She was the fastest ship on the Lagan Canal and only one horse power.
3. The captain he was a strappin' lad, he stood full four foot two.
His eyes were red, his face was green and his nose was a Prussian blue.
He wore a leather medal that he won in the Crimea war,
And his wife was steward and passenger cook aboard the Callabar.
4. One day the captain came to me, he says, my lad, says he,
Would you like to be a sailor and roam the ragin' sea,
Would you like to be a sailor on foreign seas to roll,
For we're under orders for Aghalee with half a ton of coal.
5. On leaving the Abercorn basin the weather it was sublime,
And passing under the ould Queen's Bridge we heard the Albert chime,
But going up the gasworks straight a very dangerous part,
We ran aground on a lump of coal that wasn't marked on the chart.
6. Then all became confusion and stormy winds did blow.
The bosun slipped on an orange peel and fell into the hold below.
More steam, more steam, the captain cried, for we are sorely pressed,
And the engineer from the bank replied, the ould horse is doin' its best.
7. When we woke up next morning we were in a dreadful funk,
For the mate he had been drownded dead while sleeping in his bunk.
To stop the ship from sinking and to save each precious life,
We threw all the cargo overboard including the captain's wife.
8. A farmer on his way to work he heard us loudly roar,
And he threw us the ends of his gallusses and pulled us all ashore,
I'm done with ocean ramblin' and roaming the ragin' main,
And the next time I'll go to Lisburn, bejabbers I'll go by train