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The shallow blue Pacific

And the continental shelf

Soon gave way to the black and gray

Of the mid-sea trenches with their scaly wenches

And their tales of the mountain elf

Tales of the mountain elf

Me oh my, there’s a tear in my eye

Big as the salty sea

Come on down, we’ll all drown

Down in the salty sea

They laughed and they danced and they fiddled

They sang their ancient songs

They pulled me into the circle

And said laddy, come along

The black and the gray did soon give way

To the tops of the waves and the sun dappled caves

On the volcanic sands of a virgin land

In the 18th century

In the 18th century

Five hundred nights of drinking

With my dancing fairy friends

I came out of the fog of the gentry’s grog

Woke up in the sand of Van Dieman’s land

In a planter’s chains with a brand new name

And they yoked me to the plow

They yoked me to the plow

I burned the eucalyptus

And I carried off the stones

For fourteen years I worked the fields

And my fingers to the bone

And then one night the planter

Plucked me from my toil

He said I understand you’re a dancing man

And fast with a fiddle, and smack in the middle of

The parlor I lept for the Queen

I lept for the visiting Queen

Well the planter he was very well pleased

And kind disposed to me

He invited me in to his cozy den

For cigars and porter and the social order

Was the topic of his drunken screed

The topic of his drunken screed

And he told me:

It took slavery to tame these wild lands

It took slavery to train ten thousand hands

To redirect the river

To build the Grand Canal

The cotton fields, the pyramids, the well

Now I ask you to forgive me

For I struck a devil’s deal

My sheets are clean on this packet of steam

For the Cape I am bound and Dublin town

With southern gold in the bottom of the hold

And my star crossed soul to trade for a load

Of Fenian rebels and Carlow boys

And a captain I will be

Yes a captain I will be

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