| It was thirty days around the horn
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| The captain says it’s thirty-five more
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| The moon looks mean the crew ain’t staying
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| There’s gonna be some blood
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| Is what they’re all saying
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| It’s a shakedown cruise
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| And I was just another tool
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| There ain’t no easy way out
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| They’re gonna shake you 'til you shout
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| They treat you like a dog
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| But you’re only human
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| You miss your home Lord
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| You miss that woman
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| The captain laughs he says
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| «You boys want some sex?»
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| You can squeeze the sails
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| You can lick the decks
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| It was a shakedown cruise
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| I guess I just was born to lose
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| They tell you life is going cheap
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| I got myself in pretty deep
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| Star light lost in the night
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| Drift away and it feels all right
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| Star light alone in the night
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| Drift away and it feels all right
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| I guess it feels all right
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| The fever’s hot, the winds are blowin' cold
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| The captain’s crazy eye puts the fear in your soul
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| I heard somebody cryin' «Lord let this end
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| You know I’ll never go to sea again»
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| It was a shakedown cruise
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| And now we’re sendin' out the news
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| There ain’t no victory at sea unless it’s mutiny
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| Now if I don’t get off alive
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| It’s just as well I’ll be waking up in heaven
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| 'Cause I’ve been through hell on this shakedown cruise
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| They call it a shakedown cruise
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| Shakedown, shakedown cruise
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| Shakedown, shake it up and move
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| Shakedown, shakin' in my shoes |