Excursion Around The Bay

- standard tuning - - no capo - - chords : - G : 320033 D : xx0232 C : x32010 [ Verse 1 ] G well it was on this monday morning and the day be calm and fine D G D G to the harbour grace excursion with the boys to have a time C G and just before the sailor took the gangway from the pier C D G i saw some fellow haul me wife aboard as a volunteer [ Chorus ] G oh me , oh my , i heard me old wife cry D G D G oh me , oh my , i think i’m gonna die! C G oh me , oh my , i heard me old wife say , C G D G "i wish i’d never taken this excursion around the bay" [ Verse 2 ] we had fourteen hundred souls aboard , oh what a splendid sight! left stong and 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 [ Chorus ] [ Verse 3 ] 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! [ Chorus ] [ Verse 4 ] my wife she got no better , my wife me darling dear the screeches from her trollear 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 [ Chorus ] [ Verse 5 ] she died below the brandy’s 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! [ Chorus ]