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Artist: Great Big Sea
Canonical path: /great-big-sea/donkey-riding
Related lyric paths: 6
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Donkey Riding
Read Donkey Riding lyrics by Great Big Sea on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Donkey Riding
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CHORUS:
Way hey and away we go
Donkey riding, donkey riding
Way hey and away we go
Ridin' on a donkey.
Was you ever in Quebec
Launchin' timber on the deck?
Where ya break yer bleedin' neck
Ridin' on a donkey!
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Was you ever 'round Cape Horn
Where the weather's never warm?
Wished to God you'd never been born
Ridin' on a donkey.
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Was you ever in Miramichi
Where ye tie up to a tree,
An' the girls sit on yer knee?
Ridin' on a donkey
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Was you ever in Fortune Bay
See the girls all shout, "Hooray!"?
"Here comes dad with ten weeks pay
Riding on a donkey."
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Was you ever in London-town
See the King he does come down?
See the King in his golden crown
Riding on a donkey
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Great Big Sea performs "Donkey Riding", and this lyric page sits inside the Great Big Sea catalog on LyroVerse.
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