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It was on last Monday morning and the day being calm and fine,
For the Harbour Grace Excursion with the boys to have a time;
And just before the sailors put the gangway on the pier,
I saw some fellow haul my wife on board of the Volunteer.
Oh me, oh my, I heard my poor wife cry,
Oh me, oh my, I'm half afraid I'll die;
Oh me, oh my, I heard the creature say,
I wish I never came on this excursion to the bay.
We had full two hundred souls on board, oh, what a splendid sight -
And Matt Strong in regimentals for to make our spirits light;
Sure meself was in the double from the funny things he'd say,
They will choke themselves from laughing when they see him in the bay.
Oh me, oh my, I heard my poor wife cry,
Oh me, oh my, I'm half afraid I'll die;
Oh me, oh my, I heard the creature say,
I wish I never came on this excursion to the bay.
Oh, the creature got no better, oh, my wife, my darling dear,
And the screeches from yours truly you could hear in Carbonear;
I tried every place in Harbour Grace, searched every store and shop,
To get her something for a cure to take her to the hop.
Oh me, oh my, I heard my poor wife cry,
Oh me, oh my, I'm half afraid I'll die;
Oh me, oh my, I heard the creature say,
I wish I never came on this excursion to the bay.
Oh, she died below the Brandies as we were coming back,
I buried her in the ocean wrapped up in the Union Jack;
And now I am a single man in search of a pretty face,
And the girl that says she'll have me, faix we're off for Harbour Grace.
Oh me, oh my, I heard my poor wife cry,
Oh me, oh my, I'm half afraid I'll die;
Oh me, oh my, I heard the creature say,
I wish I never came on this excursion to the bay.