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This Ship is on a List

from It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice by Elle Osborne

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Words and music by Elle
Arranged and produced by Elle, with Mike Hastings and Alex Neilson

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This Ship is on a List

This ship is on a list
It’s all so one-sided, it’s almost capsizing
and good for nought but filling with water.
This isn’t the ship, I’d hoped and had cherished and had fought for

This ship is on a list
Of long lost lovers, sisters turned to mothers
brothers turned away from their daughters
If it wasn’t for the skipper, I’d jump ship to another,
Or swim for dear life to clear water

This ship was set to sail
with cargo, full rigging, a crew and their singing
We were bound for high seas and plain sailing
But now the bo’ sun’s bowed out, and the mainmast is over the railing

This ship is in dry dock
The rudder is rotten, the longshoreman’s long-forgotten
The ballast won’t last past the morning
The sails are snapping, the hull’s only good for scrapping
And the less said the better about the mooring

This ship was set to sail
with cargo, full rigging, a crew and their singing
Away, haul away! We’ll haul away for Rosie!
Away, haul away! We’ll haul away Joe
We were bound for high seas and plain sailing
Now the fo'csle is fucked / bo’ sun’s bowed out / hull’s bound for hell / gunwhales are gone, and the mainmast is over the railing

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from It's Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice, released November 6, 2015
Elle Osborne – vocals
Alex Neilson – drums
Mike Hastings – guitar, backing vocals, tubular bells
Alasdair Roberts – bass, backing vocals
Simon D’Souza – sax
Dan Quinn - melodeon
Shanty crew: Alex, Mike, Alasdair, James Yorkston, Dusty Springsteen

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