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W:We're sailing down the river from Liverpool, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:Around Cape Horn to Frisco Bay, 
W:All on the plains or Mexico. 
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W:(chorus)
W:So heave her up and away we'll go, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno; 
W:Heave her up and away we'll go, 
W:All on the plains of Mexico. 
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W:She's a fast clipper ship and a bully good crew, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:A down-East Yankee for her captain, too 
W:All on the plains of Mexico. 
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W:There's plenty of gold so I've been told 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:There's plenty of gold so I've been told 
W:Way out West to California-o. 
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W:Back in the days of forty-nine, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:Those are the days of the good old times, 
W:All on the plains of Mexico. 
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W:When Zachary Taylor gained the day, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:He made poor Santy run away, 
W:All on the plains of Mexico. 
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W:General Scott and Taylor too,  
W:Heave away, Santy Anno,  
W:Made poor Santy meet his Waterloo,  
W:All on the plains of Mexico. 
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W:When I leave the ship, I will settle down, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:And marry a girl named Sally Brown, 
W:All on the plains of Mexico.   
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W:Santy Anno was a good old man, 
W:Heave away, Santy Anno, 
W:Till he got into war with your Uncle Sam, 
W:All on the plains of Mexico. 
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W:O! Santy Anna gained the day
W:-Away Santy Anno!
W:And Santy Anna gained the day
W:-All on the plains of Mexico!
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W:Mexico, Mexico,
W:Away Santianno!
W:Mexico is a place I know!
W:All on the plains of Mexico!
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W:Them Liverpool girls don’t use no combs
W:They combs their hair with a kipper backbone
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W:Them yaller girls I do adore
W:With their shinin’ eyes and their cold black hair
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W:Why do them yaller girls love me so
W:Because I don’t tell them all I know
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W:When I was a young man in me prime
W:I knocked them scouse girls two at a time
W:6
W:Skipper likes whiskey, the maid likes run
W:the crew likes both, but we can’t have none
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W:7
W:Times is hard and the wages low
W:It’s time for us to roll and go

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Country of origin: England

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Roud-207

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