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On the twenty-fourth of December,
And well I do remember,
I nearly broke my mother's heart at home;
I signed on with the skipper
Of a god-damned Yankee clipper,
And I thought to the bottom we would go.
"I Thought To The Bottom We Would Go,"
Folk Songs of Australia, vol 2, Meredith, Covell & Brown; 1987.
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