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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea
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The topsails are full but we're
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light on the breeze
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With a good clip down channel,
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and the passage looks calm
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And there's naught like a
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clipper just rolling along
Verse 2
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Rolling along, boys, rolling along
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And there's naught like a clipper
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just rolling along
Verse 3
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'Tween the skeleton beach and
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the Cape of Good Hope
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There's sandbars and reefs, boys,
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and they'll give you a grope
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To you skippers so daring,
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don't act too cock- sure
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Or your ship may be wrecked
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and you'll sail her no more
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more, boys, sail her no more
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Or your ship may be wrecked
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and you'll sail her no more
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There's pirates in waiting
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and storms to be tamed
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The shoals all bear names of the
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boats that they claimed
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But under our feet the warm
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waters that roll
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Are blue as cut sapphires
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and shining like gold
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Shining like gold, boys, shining like gold
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As blue as cut sap phires and shining
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Verse 7
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Now our cargo is loaded and we
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catch the dawn tide
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I can bare see the vessels
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I race for the prize
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In the docks back in London,
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they wait for to see
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The sails of our clipper
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and the first stalk of tea
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tea, boys, first stalk of tea
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For the sails of our clipper and the
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first stalk of tea
Verse 9
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Catching the westerly's haul every hand
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Pile on the topsail,
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give all she can stand
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For heart then for home,
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I hear calling me on
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And there's naught like a clipper,
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just rolling along
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Rolling
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along, boys, rolling along
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And there's naught like a
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clipper just rolling along
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Rolling
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along, boys, rolling along
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And there's naught like a
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clipper just rolling along
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