I've been a sailor since my birth
YO HO HO AND A RUDDY BUM BUM
Left my home, for all it's worth 
YO HO HO AND A RUDDY BUM BUM


CHORUS 
Lime, scurvy, ambergris and marmalade 
Hoist the petard and we'll haul away the bully boys 
Lime, scurvy, ambergris and blubber, we're 
Bound for Cincinnatti 

Fifteen years and we haven't seen a shore leave 
Heave! Heave! 

Sight the bowsprit, down the grog 
Carve the turkey in the log 
Come the day she's out of port 
Keel the bosun o'er the thwart 

Through a fluke the spout did wail 
And that's the end of my scrimshaw tale