Excursion Around The Bay (Live)

Well it was on this Monday morning
 And the day be calm and fine
 To the Harbour Grace excursion
 With the boys to have a time
 And just before the sailor
 Took the gangway from the pier
 I saw some fella haul me wife
 Aboard as a volunteer
 Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry
 Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die!
 Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say,
 "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"
 We had full three hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight!
 Dressed all in regimental to make our spirits bright
 And meself being in the double, when a funny things they'd say
 They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay
 Me wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green
 I fed her cake and candy, fat pork and kerosene
 Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed pure oil on her face
 And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbour Grace!
 My wife she got no better, my wife me darling dear
 The screeches from her gob you could hear in Carbonear
 I tried every place in Harbour Grace,
 Tried every store and shop,
 To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop
 She died below the brandies as we were coming back
 We buried her in the ocean, wrapped up in a Union Jack
 So now I am a single man, in search of a pretty face
 And the woman that says she'll have me, I'm off for Harbour Grace!