Excursion Around The Bay

G Well it was on this Monday morning and the day be calm and fine D G D G To the Harbour Grace excursion with the boys to have a time C G And just before the sailor took the gangway from the pier C D G I saw some fellow haul me wife aboard as a volunteer G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry D G D G Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! C G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say, C G D G "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay" G We had fourteen hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight D G D G Left stong and regimental to make our spirits bright C G And meself being in the double, when a funny things they'd say C D G They choke themselves from laughing when they'd see us in the bay G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry D G D G Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! C G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say, C G D G "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay" G Me wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green D G D G I fed her cake and candy, fat pork and kerosene C G Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed pure oil on her face C D G And I said she'll be a dandy when we reaches Harbour Grace! G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry D G D G Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! C G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say, C G D G "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay" G My wife she got no better, my wife me darling dear D G D G The screeches from her trollear could hear in Carbonear C G I tried every place in Harbour Grace, tried every store and shop, C D G To get her something for a cure or take her to the hop G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry D G D G Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! C G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say, C G D G "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay" G She died below the brandy's as we were coming back D G D G We buried her in the ocean, wrapped up in a Union Jack C G So now I am a single man, in search of a pretty face C D G And the woman that says she'll have me, I'm off for Harbour Grace! G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry D G D G Oh me, oh my, I think I'm gonna die! C G Oh me, oh my, I heard me old wife say, C G D G "I wish I'd never taken this excursion around the bay"