Oh, the smartest clipper you can find
Ch: Ah-hee, ah-ho, are you most done,
Is the Marg'ret Evans of the Black X Line
Ch: So clear away the track, let the Bull-gine run!
Tibby hey-rig-a-jig in a jaunting car
Ch: Ah-hee, ah-ho, are you most done,
With Lizer Lee all on my knee
Ch: So clear away the track, let the Bull-gine run!
Oh the Marget Evans of the Blue Cross Line
She's never a day behind her time.
Oh the gels are walking on the pier,
And I'll soon be home to you my dear.
Oh, when I come home across the sea,
It's Lizer you will marry me.
Oh shake her, wake her, before we're ghone;
Oh fetch that gel with the blue dress on.
Oh I thought I heard the skipper say,
"We'll keep the brig three points away."
Oh the smartest clipper you can find
Is the Marget Evans of the Blue Cross Line.
From The Shanty Book by Richard Runciman Terry (1921 and 1926)