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Say Goodbye To Your Grimsby Lass

from The Good Earth by Stuart Forester

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    Comes in a matt finish gatefold card case with photography by Anne Campbell and includes a twelve page booklet with lyrics.

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lyrics

Rolling and pitching and riding the waves, nerves like white lightning we’re hauling away
We’re the wild lads who bring in the catch and we’ll give a good blast when we come
And it’s one to the other you’ll hear them say “here come Jack with his three months pay”
Them Humber girls they’ll leave you poor, they’ll spend all your money in a week onshore
And the blackbird sang unto the crow, it’s time for us to roll and go
So drink your fill and pack your sack and say goodbye to your Grimsby lass
Them girls up the river know what it’s about
They’re wicked and willing and we’re bold and we’re stout
See us singing a shanty and acting the goat and we’ll give a good blast when we come
And it’s one to the other you’ll hear them say “here come Jack with his three months pay”
Them Humber girls they’ll leave you poor, they’ll spend all your money in a week onshore
And the blackbird sang unto the crow, it’s time for us to roll and go
So drink your fill and pack your sack and say goodbye to your Grimsby lass
In some other town there’s a wife or a lover and she waits for her man to come home
Ah but them lads up the river they’ll put it about
And they’ll give a good blast when they come
And it’s one to the other you’ll hear them say “here come Jack with his three months pay”
Them Humber girls they’ll leave you poor, they’ll spend all your money in a week onshore
And the blackbird sang unto the crow, it’s time for us to roll and go
So drink your fill and pack your sack and say goodbye to your Grimsby lass

credits

from The Good Earth, released July 6, 2017
Stuart Forester - Vocals, guitar, dulcimer
Carol Anderson - Fiddle
Davy Cattanach - Hand drum

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Stuart Forester Scotland, UK

Stuart Forester is an English acoustic roots songwriter in the folk tradition who has quite some stories to tell. Born in Cumbria but raised from a a few months old until the age of three in trailer homes in Canada he grew up in Hull, East Yorkshire and then spent many years in London. He now lives in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland where his latest album The Good Earth was recorded. ... more

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