Senior Service

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Sally's in the alley and Nancy's on the game

Emily is pregnant and wondering who to blame

We raise our port and lemon and toast a reply

That the Senior Service satisfy

See the bold man of war steaming into port

Guns fully primed, the 24 pounder sort

And down on the deck for a full broadside

Back on the high seas with the rising tide

Here's a little steamship chugging up the channel

Small smoke stack and a red smoking funnel

He brings the girls presents of stockings and tights

Comes regular as clockwork every Tuesday night

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Here come the sailor boys, Matthew, Luke and John

I like 'em with tattoos, I like 'em young and strong

Here come the sailor boys a-rousting up the town

Their rigging is up but their sails are down

Here's a skipper of a clipper with a broken bowsprit

Heading for a dry dock and a new re-fit

There's an oil tanker of the modern kind

A thousand foot length of throbbing steam turbine

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Here come the sailor boys, George, John and Paul

I like 'em lithe and lisson, I like 'em slim and tall

Here come the sailor boys whistling on the quay

Blue Peter up the mast where all the girls can see

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