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?
Sailin' o'er the ocean?
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
They're just like them pretty girls
When they gets the notion
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'?
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?
Sailin' o'er the ocean?
Ranzo, Ranzo, weigh, heigh
They're just like them pretty girls
When they gets the notion