We're bound for sea,
Bound where the wind blows free.
But we'll go down to Mother
Racket's
& we'll pour on our monkey jackets
& we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off.
We'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off.
We'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off.
We'll go down to Mother
Racket's
and we'll put on our monkey jackets
And we'll have another drink
before the boat jumps off
Hey! Hey!
Ooh -ooh -ooh -ooh -ooh -ooh
And we'll have another drink
before the boat jumps off
The decks are rotten
and the planks are weak
And the all -house shakes
and the seams all leak
Our sailor's life when he's out at sea
Is full of trouble and misery
So we'll have another drink
before the boat jumps off
We'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll go down to Mother
Racket's
and we'll pawn our
monkey jackets
And we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
At sea the salty porks are cursed
And the old dry biscuits
are even worse
When the whiskey's gone
and there's no more
The sailors growl and the
captain roars
So we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll go down to Mother Racket's
and we'll pawn our
monkey jackets
And we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
Hey! Hey!
And we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
When our ship she's laid
to the home we'll steer
And the food's strong around,
and there's lots of beer
We'll spend our money
with the girls ashore
And when it's gone we'll
sit out for more
So we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll go down to Mother Racket's,
and we'll pawn our monkey jackets,
and we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off.
God bless the widows that sure do weep,
for the loss of their men that sank
in the deep.
Oh, they've left their homes
on the mainland shore
They've left their homes
to return no more
We'll go out for sea
Out where the wind blows free
But we'll go down to Mother
Racket's
And we'll thaw our
monkey jackets
And we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
Racket's
And we'll thwart our monkey
jackets
And we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
We'll have another
before the boat shoves off
We'll go down to Mother
Racket's
And we'll thwart our
monkey jackets
And we'll have another drink
before the boat shoves off
The Belafonte Folk Singers 
