Seasick Billy The Muckers

-I'm Sam.

-I'm Lorna.

-I'm Thomas.

-And I'm Matt.

And we're...

-Right on!

-And when we're not studying at school,

we're down here on the farm, working together...in amazing Cornwall.

This time, we decided to do a sea shanty for you.

Sea shanties were musical stories designed to keep the ship's crew

entertained during their long months at sea.

In our county, Cornwall - or Kernow, as we call it -

it's surrounded by the sea.

There it is.

Around here, we still love a good, old sea shanty.

Now, me hearties, let's hear The Muckers' sea shanty.

'Tis called Seasick Billy.

Take it away, Noah.

MUSIC STARTS

# Let's throw up a tale for 'ee

# A dream that just couldn't be

# About a young Kernow boy who shouted, "Ahoy!"

# And packed up his trunks for the seas

# But they called him Seasick Billy, oi, oi

# They called him Seasick Billy, oi, oi

# Cos when the sails unfurled

# Poor Billy, he hurled

# That's why they called him Seasick Billy

# But the sailing he determined to do

# So he stuck to his dream strong as glue

# But as the vessel it tumbled

# His belly was rumbled

# And he covered the decks with his spew, ah-ha!

# And they called him Seasick Billy

# They called him Seasick Billy, ah-ha!

# Cos when the sails unfurled

# Poor Billy, he hurled

# That's why they called him Seasick Billy

# Now the skipper was a rare Frenchman who cared, oui, oui

# He pitied the boy's matted hair

# But constantly he blew on the rest of the crew

# The moment the weather weren't fair

# So the captain he had it all planned

# To drop off the lad on dry land

# And as he packed up his trunks

# Billy cried and blew chunks

# And they bade him farewell on the sand

# And they called him Seasick Billy

# They called him Seasick Billy

# Cos when the sails unfurled

# Poor Billy, he hurled

# So they called him Seasick Billy

# Now Billy, he had no rebuke

# For sailors can't be covered in puke

# His reputation to chunder

# Would not send him under

# And he saved up enough for a lute

# Then he thought of his time on the boat

# And he added his story to note

# To his tales of vomit

# He put music upon it

# Now he does something else with his throat

# And they still call him Seasick Billy, ah-ha!

# They still call him Seasick Billy, ah-ha!

# But now shanties he sings

# Sea stories he brings

# Like this one called Seasick Billy. #

THEY CHEER