SEA SONGS - online songbook

70 Traditional Sea & sailing related songs with complete lyrics.

	WHAT LUBBERS THEY'RE ON SHORE. What lubbers they're on shore, now—why, When I was there, a tailor Says to me, " Who'd to sea ? not T ; Oh, who would be a sailor ? " Poor thing! his face was white as foam ; His arm, a stick to Nancy's ; Says I, " You're one best left at home To croak your milksop fancies ; And yet a cruise would put some red, Even into you, you tailor ; 'Twould blow those whimsies from your head, Your pity for a sailor." " Yes, snip, we face the storm ; what then ? We dread it ? there's your error; The seas we sail, they make us men That cannot feel your terror; i—2