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The Teacups: https://haystackrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sugar-in-the-hold
Well, I wish I was in Mobile Bay
Screwing cotton all the day
But I’m stowing sugar in the hold below
Below, below, below
Chorus (x2)
Hey, ho, below, below
Stowing sugar in the hold below
The J. M White, she’s a new design
Stern to stem she’s mighty fine
She can beat any ship on the New Orleans Line
Stowing sugar in the hold below
Tell the mate we’ve got bad news
Can’t get no steam from the fire in the flue
The engineer he did bellow
Stowing sugar in the hold below
The captain’s on the quarter deck
Scratching away at his old neck
Heave the larboard lead and let her go
Stowing sugar in the hold below