I'm the Shantyman of the Wild Goose Nation
Ch: Tibby way-ay Hi-o-ha!
I've left my wife on a big plantation.
Ch: Hi-lo my Ranzo Hay!

Now a long farewell to the old plantation
Now a long farewell to the old plantation

And a long farewell to the Wild Goose Nation
And a long farewell to the Wild Goose Nation

Oh the boys and the girls went a huckleberry hunting
Oh the boys and the girls went a huckleberry hunting

Then goodbye and farewell you rolling river
Then goodbye and farewell you rolling river

I'm the Shantyman of the Wild Goose Nation
I've left my wife on a big plantation

From The Shanty Book by Richard Runciman Terry (1921 and 1926)

Did you ever see a Wild Goose sailing o'er the ocean?
Ch: Ranzo, Ranzo, way
They're just like them pretty girls when they gets the notion
Ch:
Ranzo, Ranzo, way

The other morn's I was walking down by the river
I met a pretty fair maid with her topsails all a-quiver

I said my pretty fair maiden, "how are you this morning?"
She said "I'm not better for the seeing of you"

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