Pay Me My Money DownPay Me<br>
Pay Me My Money Down<br>
Traditional<br>
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"Pay Me My Money Down" is performed<br>
by Jolly Rogers<br>
Please refer to Cantaria's Copyright information<br>
Notes: (taken from Shanties<br>
of the Seven Seas) English and American terms for money were, and still are,<br>
used<br>
indiscriminately in the West Indies.<br>
Here are some extra<br>
stanzas given by Harding:<br>
The bumboatman he said to me,<br>
'Bottles o' rum I don't give free.'<br>
My famcy gal she said to me,<br>
'I don't give me favours free.'<br>
The Madam said to me one day,<br>
'You've had yer fun so don't delay.'<br>
The tailorman he said to me,<br>
'Ye'll pay me 'fore ye leave for sea.'<br>
The judge he said, 'Look 'ere you mug,<br>
Ye'll pay yer fine or ye'll go to jug!'<br>
Pay Me, you Owe me, Pay me my money down<br>
You've got to pay me Mr. Stevadore, Pay me my money down<br>
You owe me, you owe me, pay me my money down<br>
You've got to pay me or you'll go to jail, Pay me my money down.<br>
If I'd a known the boss was blind<br>
Pay me my money down<br>
I wouldn't'a gone to work 'til half past nine<br>
Pay me my money down<br>
I thought I heard the old man say; Go to shore spend all your pay.<br>
I thought I heard the men below; You don't pay me and the ship don't go.<br>
I need my pay to go to shore; I'll drink my whiskey and get a whore.<br>
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