Wild Goose Shanty

Hugill says “it was sung at windlass and capstan, but Doerflinger gives it as halyards and pumps – in other words it appears to have been used for every ship board job with perhaps the exception if tacks and sheets, and hand-over-hand.

 

The Wild Goose Shanty  
 
Did you ever see a wild goose
  Sailin' o'er the ocean?

Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
 
They're just like them pretty girls
  When they gets the notion

Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
 
The other mornin’
I was walkin by the river
 
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
 
When I saw a young wakin
With her topsails all a-quiver
 
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
 
I said pretty fair maid
And how are you this mornin'?
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh

She said "None the better
for the seeing of you."
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
Did you ever see a wild goose
Sailin' o'er the ocean?
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh

They're just like them pretty girls
When they gets the notion