《Mauling Live Oak》歌词

[00:00:00] Mauling Live Oak - The Boarding Party/Tom McHenry

[00:00:01] One day I was traveling

[00:00:03] I happened to think

[00:00:05] "My pockets are empty I can't buy a drink

[00:00:09] I am an old bummer completely dead broke

[00:00:14] And there's nothing to do but go

[00:00:17] Mauling live oak "

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[00:00:23] Well I went right away for to see Captain Swift

[00:00:28] To see and find out could he give me a lift

[00:00:32] He looked me all over from top unto toe

[00:00:37] Said he "You're the boy that live oaking

[00:00:40] Must go"

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[00:00:46] Then he brought out the contract that both

[00:00:49] Of us signed

[00:00:50] To keep and secure if we both were inclined

[00:00:54] But the very best wages that he could afford

[00:00:59] 'Twas only five dollars a month and my board

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[00:01:08] Well I had to get ready without much delay

[00:01:12] For the schooner was sailing the very next

[00:01:15] Day

[00:01:16] With two pints of whiskey a pipe and a spoon

[00:01:21] Away we set sail for Mosquito Lagoon

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[00:01:30] Now bluff was the game that we played every

[00:01:33] Night

[00:01:34] And in it Charles Douglass he took great

[00:01:37] Delight

[00:01:38] He won my tobacco while others cracked jokes

[00:01:43] He said "You'll get more when you're

[00:01:45] Mauling live oak "

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[00:01:52] Now mauling this live oak I'll say it's

[00:01:55] Great fun

[00:01:56] Especially the dry ones that makes the sweat

[00:01:59] Run

[00:02:00] It'll make your axe handles to glimmer and

[00:02:03] Smoke

[00:02:05] You need iron handles for mauling live oak

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[00:02:14] It's mosquitoes by day and it's midges by night

[00:02:18] The sand fleas and bedbugs they bother me quite

[00:02:22] And if ever back home my head I do poke

[00:02:26] To Hell I'll kick Swift and his goddam

[00:02:29] Live oak

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