 Genius Lyrics
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The Longest Johns – The Curse
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An original song by The Longest Johns that loosely follows a shanty format. The narrator sings of a life of misfortune, where his diligence and loyalty are repaid with treachery
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The Longest Johns – The Parting Glass
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[Verse 1] / Of all the money that e'er I had / I spent it in good company / And of all the harm that e'er I've done / Alas it was to none but me / And all I've done for want of wit
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The Longest Johns – Ashes
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A sombre poetic dirge, “Ashes” protests the gatekeeping of folk and shanty music by ostensible members of the folk community who prefer to treat the genre as a museum of what was
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The Longest Johns – Spanish Ladies
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[Verse 1] / Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies / Farewell and adieu to you, to you ladies of Spain; / For we've received orders for to sail for old England / But we hope
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The Longest Johns – Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / Come me boys and heave with me / Let's get off this curséd sea / Let's be home to lovers and wives / And leave behind these four hour lives / [Chorus] / (Four Hours
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The Longest Johns – Hammer and the Anvil
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[Verse 1] / I thought to make a horseshoe, and asked my hammer thus / He said, "I'll ask the anvil what you require of us" / The hammer asked the anvil and she at once agreed
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The Longest Johns – Fire & Flame
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“Fire & Flame” tells the story of the Halifax Explosion in December 1917, when the SS Mont Blanc and the SS Imo collided in the narrows of Halifax harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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The Longest Johns – Santiana
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[Verse 1] / Oh! Santiana gained a day / Away Santiana! / "Napoleon of the West", they say / Along the plains of Mexico / [Chorus] / Well, heave 'er up and away we'll go / Away
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The Longest Johns – Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)
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[Verse 1] / If I had wings / Like Noah's dove / I'd fly up the river / To the one I love / [Chorus] / Fare thee well / Oh, honey / Fare thee well / [Verse 2] / I had a man / Who
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The Longest Johns – Farewell to Tarwethie
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[Verse 1] / Farewell to Tarwathie / Adieu Mormond Hill / And the dear land of Crimmond / I bid you farewell / For I'm bound off for Greenland / And ready to sail / For hopes to
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The Longest Johns – Oak & Ash & Thorn
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Oak and Ash and Thorn is a song released by The Longest Johns on June 10th, 2020 along with 11 other songs on their “Cure What Ails Ya” Album.
The song is a cover of Oak and Ash
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The Longest Johns – The Captain's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / When I was just a lad of twelve, I joined a skipper's crew / To sail about the ocean wide, in search of treasures new / But failed to batten down a hatch, I let in
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The Longest Johns – Drunken Sailor
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[Verse 1] / From Tortuga's port we put to sea / And sailed for sixteen days / In the biggest storm I'd ever seen / We almost lost our way / When a call came from a deckhand / “Boys
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The Longest Johns – Eliza Lee
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[Verse 1] / Oh the finest ship that you will find is / Ho eh, ho ah, are you most done? / She's the Margaret Evans of the blue star line! / Clear away the track and let the bulgine
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The Longest Johns – Bones in the Ocean
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“Bones in the Ocean” follows the story of a sailor who survived a shipwreck that killed all of his crewmates. The sailor suffers from extreme survivor’s guilt and believes that if
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The Longest Johns – Randy Dandy-O
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[Verse 1] / Now we are ready to head for the Horn / Way, hay, roll an' go! / Our boots an' our clothes boys are all in the pawn / To be rollicking randy dandy-O! / [Chorus] / Heave
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The Longest Johns – General Taylor
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[Verse 1] / General Taylor gained the day / (Walk him along, John, carry him along) / Well General Taylor gained the day / (Carry him to his burying ground) / [Chorus] / To me, way
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The Longest Johns – Pay Me My Money Down
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[Verse 1: Robbie] / I thought I heard the captain say (Hey!) / (Pay me my money down) / "Tomorrow is our sailing day." / (Pay me my money down) / [Chorus] / Well, pay me (Pay me
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The Longest Johns – We All Lift Together (Warframe Cover)
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[Intro] / Humming / [Chorus] / Cold, the air and water flowing / Hard, the land we call our home / Push, to keep the dark from coming / Feel the weight of what we owe / This, the
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The Longest Johns – Rolling Along
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[Verse 1] / It's a long way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea / The topsails are full but we're light on the breeze / With a good clip down-channel, and the passage looks calm
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The Longest Johns – Moby Duck
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[Verse 1] / After fourteen years I left the sea, for a life upon a lake / After all the storms I'd seen, I needed a good break / I thought still waters would mean peace for me
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The Longest Johns (Ft. Seth Lakeman) – The Workers Song
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[Verse 1] / Oh, come on all you workers, who toil night and day / By hand and by brain, to earn your pay / Who for centuries all past for no more than your bread / Have bled for
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The Longest Johns – Nantucket
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[Verse 1] / I come from an island, an islander's ways / Breakers and Quakers and few of us stray / Hunting the oceans with men that won't tire / Nantucket sleigh rides and chimney'
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The Longest Johns – Christmas at Sea
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The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand; / The decks were like a slide, where a seamen scarce could stand; / The wind was a nor'wester, blowing squally off the sea
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The Longest Johns – Here's a Health to the Company
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[Verse 1] / Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme / Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine; / Come lift up your voices all grief to refrain / For we may or might
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The Longest Johns – The Auld Triangle
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[Verse 1] / A hungry feeling / Came o'er me stealing / And the mice were squealing / In my prison cell / And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle / All along the banks of the Royal
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The Longest Johns – Downed and Drowned
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[Verse 1] / San Jose was lost at sea / Along with a Spanish company / Their powder caught under fierce attack / The king never got his emeralds back / They're down, downed and
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The Longest Johns – Bonny Ship the Diamond
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[Verse 1] / The Diamond is a ship, me lads, for the Davis Strait we're bound / The quay it is all garnished with bonnie lasses 'round; / Captain Thompson gives the orders to sail
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The Longest Johns – Off to Sea
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[Verse 1: JD] / When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon the spree / With money at last, I spent it fast, I got drunk as drunk could be / But when my money was all gone, it
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The Longest Johns – The Milkmaid
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[Verse 1] / I love a woman and she loves me / Heave away! / She belongs to the rolling sea / Heave and haul away! / Though she's made me many a pound / Heave away! / I had no
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The Longest Johns – Crossing the Bar
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[Verse 1] / Sunset and evening star / And one clear call for me! / And may there be no moaning of the bar / When I put out to sea / [Chorus] / When I put out to sea / When I put
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The Longest Johns – Woodpile
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[Verse 1] / Ah-way down South where the cocks do crow! (Hey!) / (Way down in Florida) / Them girls all dance to the old banjo / (And we'll roll the woodpile down) / [Chorus
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The Longest Johns – Byker Hill
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[Verse 1] / If I had another penny / I would have another gill / I would make the piper play / "The Bonny Lass of Byker Hill" / [Chorus] / Byker Hill and Walker Shore / Collier
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The Longest Johns – Ode to the Road
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[Verse 1] / Yes I'm a landlubber, and I love the land / So maybe our journey was longer than planned / But who can put prices on what we have done / The trials we have faced and
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The Longest Johns – Barge Ballad
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[Verse 1] / Once there was a barge lad / Way up atop the mast / Shouting to the skipper / "We've made it home at last" / Well, I was that barge lad / Way up atop the mast / Now I'm
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The Longest Johns – All at Sea
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I lost my heart among the waves / I wait to feel it sink / The girl I love has gone to sea / Whilst I stand on the brink / To my dismay she gives her ship more love than ever I got
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The Longest Johns – Hog Eye Man
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A traditional American work song that made its way into British seamanship. Many publications of this song include a note that a number of traditional verses were too obscene to
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The Longest Johns – Fish in the Sea
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[Verse 1] / Come all you young sailor men, listen to me / I'll sing you a song of the fish in the sea / [Chorus] / And it's windy weather, boys / Stormy weather, boys / When the
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The Longest Johns – Banks of Newfoundland
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[Verse 1] / Me bully boys of Liverpool I'll have you to beware / When you sail in them packet ships no dungaree jumpers wear; / But have a good monkey jacket all ready to your hand
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The Longest Johns – Haul Away, Joe
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[Verse 1] / When I was just a little lad, or so me Mammi told me / Away Haul Away, we'll haul away, Joe / That if I didn't kiss the girls me lips would grow all mouldy / Away Haul
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The Longest Johns – The Cruel Wars
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“The Cruel Wars” is a traditional folk song, predating the 19th century. It tells the story of a soldier usually called Willy (“Johnny” or “Harry” in this song), fighting in the “
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The Longest Johns – The Mary Ellen Carter
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[Verse 1] / Oh, she went down last October in a pouring, driving rain / The skipper, he'd been drinking and the mate, he felt no pain / Out close to Three Mile Rock, and she was
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The Longest Johns – Old Maui
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[Verse 1] / It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife / We whalermen undergo / And we won't give a damn when the gales are done / How hard the winds did blow / For we're
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