{t:WE'LL RANT AND WE'LL ROAR}
{st:Newfoundland folk song}
{c:CHORUS:}
{soc}
We'll [G] rant and we'll roar like [Am] true Newfound-[D]landers,
We'll rant and we'll roar on [D7] deck and [G] below [G]
Until we see bottom in-[Am]side of two [D] sunkers,
[D] Then [G] straight through the [Am] channel to [D] Toslow we'll [G] go.
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I'm the [G] son of a seacook and a [Am] cook on a [D] trader,
I can dance, I can sing, I can [D7] reef the main [G] boom; [G]
I can handle a jigger and I [Am] cuts a fine [D] figure,
When-[G]ever I [Am] gets in a [D] boat's standing [G] room. [G]
If the [G] voyage is good then this [Am] fall I will [D] do it,
I want two-pound-ten for a [D7] ring and a [G] priest; [G]
A couple of dollars for [Am] clean shirts and [D] collars,
And a [G] handful of [Am] coppers to [D] make up a [G] feast. [G]
{c:CHORUS:}
{soc}
We'll [G] rant and we'll roar like [Am] true Newfound-[D]landers,
We'll rant and we'll roar on [D7] deck and [G] below [G]
Until we see bottom in-[Am]side of two [D] sunkers,
[D] Then [G] straight through the [Am] channel to [D] Toslow we'll [G] go.
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I [G] went to a dance one [Am] night in Fox [D] Harbour,
There were plenty of girls as [D7] nice as you'd [G] wish; [G]
There was one pretty maiden a-[Am]chawing on [D] frankgum,
Just [G] like a young [Am] kitten a-[D]gnawing fresh [G] fish. [G]
There's [G] plump little Polly, her [Am] name is Golds-[D]worthy,
There's John Coady's Kitty and [D7] Mary Tib-[G]bo; [G]
There's Clara from Brule and [Am] young Martha [D] Foley,
But the [G] nicest of [Am] all is my [D] girl from [G] Toslow. [G]
{c:CHORUS:}
{soc}
We'll [G] rant and we'll roar like [Am] true Newfound-[D]landers,
We'll rant and we'll roar on [D7] deck and [G] below [G]
Until we see bottom in-[Am]side of two [D] sunkers,
[D] Then [G] straight through the [Am] channel to [D] Toslow we'll [G] go.
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Fare-[G]well and adieu to ye [Am] fair ones of [D] Valen,
Farewell and adieu to ye [D7] ones in the [G] cove; [G]
Now let ye be jolly, don't [Am] be melan-[D]choly,
For I [G] can't marry [Am] all or in the [D] chokey I'd [G] be. [G]
Fare-[G]well and adieu to you [Am] girls of Fox [D] Harbour,
Oderin and Presque, Crabbes [D7] Hole and [G] Brule; [G]
I'm bound to the westward to the [Am] wall with the [D] hole in,
For I [G] can't marry [Am] all or in the [D] chokey I'd [G] be. [G]
{c:CHORUS:}
{soc}
We'll [G] rant and we'll roar like [Am] true Newfound-[D]landers,
We'll rant and we'll roar on [D7] deck and [G] below [G]
Until we see bottom in-[Am]side of two [D] sunkers,
[D] Then [G] straight through the [Am] channel to [D] Toslow we'll [G] go.
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Fare-[G]well and adieu to ye [Am] girls of St. [D] Kyran's,
Of Paradise and Presque, big and [D7] little Bo-[G]na; [G]
I'm bound unto Toslow to [Am] marry sweet [D] Biddy,
And [G] if I don't [Am] do so, I'm [D] afraid of her [G] da. [G]
I've [G] bought me a house from [Am] Katherine [D] Davis,
A twenty-pound bed from [D7] Jimmy Mc-[G]Graw; [G]
I'll get me a settle, a [Am] pot and a [D] kettle,
And [G] then I'll be [Am] ready for [D] Biddy - [G] hurrah! [G]
{c:CHORUS:}
{soc}
We'll [G] rant and we'll roar like [Am] true Newfound-[D]landers,
We'll rant and we'll roar on [D7] deck and [G] below [G]
Until we see bottom in-[Am]side of two [D] sunkers,
[D] Then [G] straight through the [Am] channel to [D] Toslow we'll [G] go.
{eoc}
{t:WE'LL RANT AND WE'LL ROAR}
