We left the Wear in 71
Was up wi tha sail and away we were gone
Jamaica bound yelled Capt Tom
To 13 crew and a cat called John
And its all aboard on the green line clipper
With the iron legged Captain and the cock eyed skipper
13 crew on the Insanityana bringing back the marijuana
It was in the year of 72 the sirens take half of the crew
The monsoon gales had taken the sails
With the salt beef gone we ate old John
And its all aboard on the green line clipper
With the iron legged Captain and the cock eyed skipper
6 an a half men on the Insanityana bringing back the marijuana
Now lost at sea in 73 with salty watter ta mak our tea
We lost half of the crew to insanity
Pumping the bilges out night and day
Its all aboard on the green line clipper
With the iron legged Captain and the cock eyed skipper
3 men and a quarter on the Insanityana bringing back the marijuana
Montigo Bay in 74 we floundered just short of the shore
Lost half the crew to the sharks below
As we swam for the sands where the breakers roar
And its all aboard on the green line clipper
With the iron legged Captain and the cock eyed skipper
1 half and an eighth on the Insanityana bringing back the marijuana
So we wove the hemp to repair the sails
We knotted the buds to make us rope
We took some resin to cork the boat
And we made good time round the Cape of Good Hope
By the year of 1822 up the Wear come clipper and crew
The boat was scrapped and the town was stoned
And they put Tom and his men in Cherry Knowle
And its all aboard on the green line clipper
With the iron legged Captain and the cock eyed skipper
And the merry crew you hear them sing
Known through the land as Gannetwaing
