Rolling Down to Old Maui

Storm Weather Shanty Choir

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It's a rough, tough life, full of toil and strife We whalers undergo And we don't give a damn when the gale is done How hard the winds do blow So we're homeward bound, it's a damn fine sound With a good ship, taut and free And we don't give a damn when we drink our rum With the girls of old Maui Rolling down to old Maui, me boys Rolling down to old Maui We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to old Maui Once more we sail with a northerly gale Through the ice and sleet and rain And the coconut fronds on the tropical isles We soon shall see again Six hellish months have passed away In the cold Kamchatka sea But now we're bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to old Maui Rolling down to old Maui, me boys Rolling down to old Maui We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to old Maui How warm the breeze on the tropical seas Now the ice is far astern The Hawaiian maids on the island glades Are awaiting our return And the big black eyes even now look out Hoping someday they will see Our baggy sails running 'fore the gales Rolling down to old Maui Rolling down to old Maui, me boys Rolling down to old Maui We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to old Maui Once more we sail with a favorable gale Aye, towards our island home Our mainyard's sprung and our whaling's done And we ain't got far to roam Our studs'l booms are carried away What care we for that sound? A living gale is after us Thank God, we're homeward bound Rolling down to old Maui, me boys Rolling down to old Maui We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to old Maui And now we're anchored in the bay With Kanakas all around With chats and stuff aloha way They greet us homeward bound And now ashore we'll have good fun We'll paint them beaches red Lying in the arms of Hawaiian maids With a big, fat, aching head Rolling down to old Maui, me boys Rolling down to old Maui We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to old Maui