Sugar in the Hold - The Longest Johns

Well I wish I was in Mobile Bay

Screwing cotton all the day

But I’m stowing sugar in the hold below

Below, below, below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Well the J.M. White, she’s a brand new boat

Stern to stern she’s mighty fine

Can beat any boat on the New Orleans line

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Well the engineer shouts through his trumpet

«Tell the men we’ve got bad news

Can get no steam for the fire in the flue»

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Well the captain’s on the quarter deck

Scratching 'way at his old neck

He shouts out «heave the larboard lead»

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below

Hey ho, below below

Stowing sugar in the hold below