hey-dey look at me i pull my paddle up one two three and i pull my paddle to the beat of a drum and i never get a rest 'till the day is done
i pull my paddle and I push it right back me and a hundred with a shaggle on my neck damned to be lashed on this never ending trip before the rats are leaving the sinking ship
rum and whiskey are used to be our freight captured it all in about seven hundred raids and i pull my paddle with a curse on my lips before the rats are leaving the sinking ship
the sea gets raw and the wind blows cold got the mightiest storm you have ever been told this might be the end of a terrible grip before the rats are leaving the sinking ship
the ship turns left and the ship turns right every wave that breaks was a terrible fight caught in chains and no reason to be hip and now the rats are leaving the sinking ship
hey-dey look at me i pull my paddle up one two three and i pull my paddle to the beat of a drum and i never get a rest 'till the day is done
tell my lady not to wait i'll be on my way i send them all to heavensgate 'till the end of day
hey-dey look at me i pull my paddle up one two three and i pull my paddle to the beat of a drum and i never get a rest 'till the day is done