Stockholm Tar - The Spinners

There’s a harness cask

in the sail locker stands

It smells your clothes

and stains your hands

On line, and twine

and captans spar

even in your grub

is Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

There’s a ten month pay

in my good pants

and after that

there’s a month’s advance

I’m going down

to Tamil’s bar

treat the little girls

to Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

I once met a girl

called Margaret Lee

she said 'come home

and sleep with me'

Her men was deaf,

but i didn’t get far

he slept down wind

of the Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Mary had a new shimmy

all new and white

I sat her on my knee

and we both got tight

When she got home

she told her ma

a scuttle boy

with his Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Did a trip once

in a steamboat line

covered in coal dust,

soot and grime

You’d choke on smoke

and black chattar,

and long for the smell

of Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Well i pull on me pants,

me money’s all gone

I’ll find me a ship

and then sign on

See tell all for

a fare well jar

Then he’s packing out to sea

and Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

And when I die

and I go below

I don’t want no fancy

mournin' show

No gilded coffin

or funeral pyre

just lay out me bones

in Stockholm Tar

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore

Liverpool Judies know the score

when a merchant seaman walks ashore