Bring `Em Down

A heavy-haul one-pull shanty with a triple-stamp refrain. Some of the words refer to ports of Chile and Peru and the memorable girls thereof but that doesn't mean that this shanty was limited to the West Coast run.

Bring `Em Down

In Liverpool I was born!
Bring `em down!
But London is me home from home,
Bring `em down!
Them Rotherhithe girls, they look so fine,
Bring `em down!
They're never a day behind their time.
Bring `em down!
 
It's around Cape Horn we go,
Bring `em down!
All through the ice and snow,
Bring `em down!
And up the coast to Vallipo,
Bring `em down!
Northward to Callao
Bring `em down!
 
Them Callao girls I do adore,
Bring `em down!
They takes it all, they ask for more,
Bring `em down!
Them Callao girls puts on a show,
Bring `em down!
They waggle their arse with a roll and go!
Bring `em down!
 
It's back to Liverpool,
Bring `em down!
I spent me pay like a bloody fool,
Bring `em down!
Them Liverpool girls I do admire,
Bring `em down!
They sets me riggin' all afire!
Bring `em down!
 
I'm Liverpool born and Liverpool bred,
Bring `em down!
I’m strong in the arm and thick in the head,
Bring `em down!
So rock and roll me over, boys,
Bring `em down!
Let's get this damn job over, boys!
Bring `em down!