Cross The Ocean

Cross The Ocean

Real Mckenzies (The)
(album: Oot & Aboot)

off to the harbour, under drungeon in the morning
i´ve got a press gang looking after me.
i´ll awaken sometime on the morrow.
by then we´ll be a league away te sea.

full sails, bouncing on the briney
asway about they spreay&windy all the day
tellin´ by the swells an adventure´s in the making
that´s if i don´t die upon the way

i´m the boy they pressed aboard & took me out to sea
the captain is a tyrant & he tells what to do
but the firstmate is a cutthroat, with a muntineering spark
he plans to take the captain & feed him to the sharks

i´ll never forget the trungeons & the harbour in the morning
and what the navy did to me & pressed me on the sea
still alive & i survived so many years later
as big a buccaneer as i could claim to be