John Kanaka - Fiddler's Green

I heard, I heard an old man say

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Today, today is a holiday

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

I heard, I heard the old man say

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’ll work tomorrow, but not today

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Tu-rai-ay, oh!

Tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’re outward bound at the break of day

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’re outward bound for 'Frisco Bay

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’re outward bound around Cape Horn

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Where you wish to God you’d never been born

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Tu-rai-ay, oh!

Tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’re a Yankee Ship with a Yankee crew

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

And we’re the boys to push her through

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’re a Yankee Ship with a Yankee mate

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Don’t stop to walk or he’ll change your gait

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Tu-rai-ay, oh!

Tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

And when we get to 'Frisco Bay

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

We’ll pay off ship and draw our pay

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Oh, haul, oh haul, oh haul away

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Haul away and make our pay

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Tu-rai-ay, oh!

Tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

Tu-rai-ay, oh!

Tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!

John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!