Woke up last night from a 3-day drunk
Swinging in a sailor's bunk
All my gear in a sailor's trunk
Press ganged again
The ship is called the Virgin Queen
The most rancid tub you've ever seen
Fairly bursting at the seams
With vice and tooth decay
The tide is high, the moon is full
Jolly as a grinning skull
Pull my bully-boys and pull
Anchor chains away
Hey hey heave away
Out the harbor, 'cross the bay
We're sailing for Amerikay
A sailor's life for me
Hey hey heave away
'Cross the foam and briney spray
We sail tonight for far Cathay
Across the endless sea
The captain's greasy, round, and fat
Got the morals of an alley cat
Sightless as a one-eyed bat
Navigates by smell
The bosun's name is Mr. Bluth
Just one leg and just one tooth
Reads from Joshua, Judges, Ruth
To save his soul from hell
The second mate's from islands East
Tattooed and queue'd from head to feet
Killed a man and wears his teeth
On a string around his neck
Hey hey heave away...
In Singapore we went ashore
Danced with geishas by the score
Woke up broken, bruised and sore
And all my money's gone
The tide is high, the moon is full
Jolly as a grinning skull
Pull my bully-boys and pull
Anchor chains away
The ship is called the Virgin Queen
The most rancid tub you've ever seen
For scurvy, lice, and sodomy
It's a sailor's life for me
Hey hey heave away...
Swinging in a sailor's bunk
All my gear in a sailor's trunk
Press ganged again
The ship is called the Virgin Queen
The most rancid tub you've ever seen
Fairly bursting at the seams
With vice and tooth decay
The tide is high, the moon is full
Jolly as a grinning skull
Pull my bully-boys and pull
Anchor chains away
Hey hey heave away
Out the harbor, 'cross the bay
We're sailing for Amerikay
A sailor's life for me
Hey hey heave away
'Cross the foam and briney spray
We sail tonight for far Cathay
Across the endless sea
The captain's greasy, round, and fat
Got the morals of an alley cat
Sightless as a one-eyed bat
Navigates by smell
The bosun's name is Mr. Bluth
Just one leg and just one tooth
Reads from Joshua, Judges, Ruth
To save his soul from hell
The second mate's from islands East
Tattooed and queue'd from head to feet
Killed a man and wears his teeth
On a string around his neck
Hey hey heave away...
In Singapore we went ashore
Danced with geishas by the score
Woke up broken, bruised and sore
And all my money's gone
The tide is high, the moon is full
Jolly as a grinning skull
Pull my bully-boys and pull
Anchor chains away
The ship is called the Virgin Queen
The most rancid tub you've ever seen
For scurvy, lice, and sodomy
It's a sailor's life for me
Hey hey heave away...