Retirement Song

[00:00.07] I've been roaming all my life and now I've found a lady wife

[00:03.26] I'm staying, right here!

[00:06.45] Oh I won't go sailing any more I won't obey the ocean's call

[00:10.32] By I'm staying, right here!

[00:13.51] I'll be a man of the land

[00:15.11] I'll be a man of the trees

[00:16.97] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[00:20.41] I won't be any captain's mate

[00:22.02] I won't be servant of the seas

[00:24.13] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need

[00:27.85] At 14 I was cabin boy to fearsome Captain Buckleroy

[00:31.31] I'm staying, right here!

[00:34.49] When I was sick he ordered cat 'o nine, until I said that I felt fine

[00:38.49] I'm staying, right here!

[00:41.68] I'll be a man of the land

[00:43.27] I'll be a man of the trees

[00:45.14] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[00:48.60] I won't be any captain's mate

[00:50.19] I won't be servant of the seas

[00:52.04] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need

[00:56.03] At 20 I manned our crow's nest and captain said I was the best

[00:59.74] I'm staying right here!

[01:02.94] But I nearly lost my eyes to God just lookin' out for old Cape Cod

[01:06.65] I'm staying right here!

[01:09.84] I'll be a man of the land

[01:11.97] I'll be a man of the trees

[01:13.14] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[01:16.88] I won't be any captain's mate

[01:18.47] I won't be servant of the seas

[01:20.59] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need

[01:24.31] At 25 no man alive could match my skill for gunnin'

[01:27.77] I'm staying right here!

[01:30.95] But the Captain he got drunk one night and sank the blasted cannon

[01:34.97] I'm staying right here!

[01:37.89] I'll be a man of the land

[01:39.75] I'll be a man of the trees

[01:41.61] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[01:44.79] I won't be any captain's mate

[01:46.92] I won't be servant of the seas

[01:48.79] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need

[01:52.50] Captain died at twenty eight and by then I was his first mate

[01:55.96] I'm staying, right here!

[01:59.15] Well they tried to give me his command but I was hungry for the land

[02:03.41] I'm staying, right here!

[02:06.33] I'll be a man of the land

[02:07.92] I'll be a man of the trees

[02:10.07] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[02:13.25] I won't be any captain's mate

[02:15.11] I won't be servant of the seas

[02:16.98] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need

[02:21.22] Stepped ashore at Felixstowe and made for Bristol by the road

[02:24.41] I'm staying, right here!

[02:27.59] Well I fell in love when first I saw her

[02:31.05] Avon County's finest daughter

[02:38.04] And now she's got me staying right here (a-way!)

[02:41.76] I'll be a man of the land

[02:43.61] I'll be a man of the trees

[02:45.28] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[02:48.74] I won't be any captain's mate

[02:50.33] I won't be servant of the seas

[02:52.46] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need

[02:56.44] I'll be a man of the land

[02:57.61] I'll be a man of the trees

[02:59.21] I'll be a man wherever my woman will be

[03:02.66] I won't be any captain's mate

[03:04.26] I won't be servant of the seas

[03:06.64] 'Cause this pretty little woman is all I need