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Lasses, call your lads ashore,
Lasses, call your lads ashore,
Lasses, call your lads ashore,
There's liberty for the sailors.

Liberty and money free,
Liberty and money free,
Liberty and money free,
There's liberty for the sailors.

Let the lubbers lie aboard,
Let the lubbers lie aboard,
Let the lubbers lie aboard,
Because they're nobbut tailors.

But lasses, call your lads etc.

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Source: John Stokoe, 1882, Songs and Ballads of Northern England, Walter Scott Ltd, London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Notes:
The music shows this is in common time, but it is either 3/4 or 6/8; I have chosen 6/8.

Roud: 3179 (Search Roud index at VWML)
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