| I heard, I heard an old man say
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Today, today is a holiday
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| I heard, I heard the old man say
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’ll work tomorrow, but not today
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Tu-rai-ay, oh! |
| Tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’re outward bound at the break of day
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’re outward bound for 'Frisco Bay
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’re outward bound around Cape Horn
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Where you wish to God you’d never been born
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Tu-rai-ay, oh! |
| Tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’re a Yankee Ship with a Yankee crew
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| And we’re the boys to push her through
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’re a Yankee Ship with a Yankee mate
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Don’t stop to walk or he’ll change your gait
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Tu-rai-ay, oh! |
| Tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| And when we get to 'Frisco Bay
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| We’ll pay off ship and draw our pay
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Oh, haul, oh haul, oh haul away
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Haul away and make our pay
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Tu-rai-ay, oh! |
| Tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| Tu-rai-ay, oh! |
| Tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay!
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| John Kanaka-naka tu-rai-ay! |