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    • Home
    • About Us
    • About the Shanty
    • Repertoire
      • A Rovin'
      • Blood Red Roses
      • Blow the Man Down
      • Bring 'Em Down
      • Bully Boy Shanty
      • Bully in the Alley
      • Clear the Track
      • Cruel
      • Drunken Sailor
      • Eleven Rorty Pirates
      • Fire Marengo
      • Haul Away, Joe
      • Haul on the Bowline
      • The Holy Ground
      • Johnny, Do Us a Favour!
      • John Kanaka
      • Leave Her, Johnny
      • Lost at Sea
      • Lowlands
      • Mollymauk
      • My Mother Told Me
      • My Saucy Sailor
      • Paddy Lay Back
      • Rattle Them Winches
      • Roll the Old Chariot
      • Row, My Bully Boys, Row
      • Sail Away, Ladies
      • Sally Brown
      • Sam's Gone Away
      • Santiana
      • Santiana
      • The Wellerman
      • Whip Jamboree
    • Performances
    • Audio
    • Sources
    • Glossary
    • Gallery
Liverpool Shanty Choir
  • Home
  • About Us
  • About the Shanty
  • Repertoire
    • A Rovin'
    • Blood Red Roses
    • Blow the Man Down
    • Bring 'Em Down
    • Bully Boy Shanty
    • Bully in the Alley
    • Clear the Track
    • Cruel
    • Drunken Sailor
    • Eleven Rorty Pirates
    • Fire Marengo
    • Haul Away, Joe
    • Haul on the Bowline
    • The Holy Ground
    • Johnny, Do Us a Favour!
    • John Kanaka
    • Leave Her, Johnny
    • Lost at Sea
    • Lowlands
    • Mollymauk
    • My Mother Told Me
    • My Saucy Sailor
    • Paddy Lay Back
    • Rattle Them Winches
    • Roll the Old Chariot
    • Row, My Bully Boys, Row
    • Sail Away, Ladies
    • Sally Brown
    • Sam's Gone Away
    • Santiana
    • Santiana
    • The Wellerman
    • Whip Jamboree
  • Performances
  • Audio
  • Sources
  • Glossary
  • Gallery

My Mother Told Me

My mother told me

Someday I would buy

A galley with good oars

Sail to distant shores


Stand up on the prow

Noble barque I steer

Steady course to the haven

Hew many foemen, hew many foemen


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