A packet is the island last
Lowlands, lowlands, lowlands, low
It's a laddie hound at the main topmast
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The old man hails from Barbados
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He's got an ailment hammer-toed
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He gives his brain as hard as brass
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And jokes as soft as a baby's ass
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The monkeys raped in the soldier's clothes
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They're very gone for who knows
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We'll haul 'em high and let 'em dry
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We'll thrash them up into the sky
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It's up aloft that yard must go
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Up aloft from down below
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Lowlands, me boys, and up she goes
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Can't change, me boys, she's sure going close
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