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Oh, Shenando'h, I long to hear you, 'Way-ho, we're bound away, Down the broad Missouri. A famous capstan chanty is well known on land, whence, indeed, it originally came: And it's hame, dearie, hame; oh! it's hame I want to be. My topsails are hoisted and I must out to sea; But the oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree, They're all a-growin' green in the North Countree.
I clambered in and dropped into a seat with my back to the driver. He placed himself opposite, nursing the valise on his knees. Ben Jope came last and slammed-to the door after him. "Way-ho!" he shouted. "Easy canvas!" and with that plumped down beside me, and took off his tarpaulin hat, extracted a handkerchief, and carefully wiped his brow and the back of his neck. "Well!" he sighed.
Away for Rio! with its wild, queer wail in the middle of its full-toned chorus, has always been a great favourite afloat: For we're bound for Rio Grande, And away Rio! ay Rio! Sing fare-ye-well, my bonny young girl, We're bound for Rio Grande. The Wide Missouri is a magnificent song for baritones and basses on the water: Oh, Shenando'h, I love your daughter, 'Way-ho, the rolling river!
Blow the man down, blow the man down, Chorus. 'Way-ho! Blow the man down. Solo. Blow the man down from Liverpool town; Chorus. Give us some wind to blow the man down. When every sail is set and every stitch is drawing, there is no finer sight the sea can show.
Then the chanty rises from the swaying men, rises and falls, in wavering bursts of sound, as if the gale was whirling it about: Blow the man down, blow the man down, 'Way-ho! Blow the man down. Blow the man down from Liverpool town; Give us some wind to blow the man down. And so the gallant ship goes outward-bound; and homeward-bound the same.
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