Name: Cape Cod Girls
Duration: P00H01M58S
Description: Sailors used this chantey to poke fun at their shipmates, using the words from whatever towns they happened to be from. I've used it to celebrate audience members from Newfoundland schoolchildren to the founder of the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands, as well as chantey-singer friends from South Australia.

Cape Cod Girls

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Sailors used this chantey to poke fun at their shipmates, using the words from whatever towns they happened to be from. I've used it to celebrate audience members from Newfoundland schoolchildren to the founder of the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands, as well as chantey-singer friends from South Australia.

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Cape Cod girls don't use no combs;,
Haul away, haul away!
Combs their hair with cod fish bones.
An' we're bound for south Australia!

Heave her up me bully, bully boys…
Heave her up and don't ye make no noise…

Cape Cod cats don't have no tails,
Lost them all in southeast gales.

Cape Cod kids don't have no sleds,
They slide down hills on cod fish heads.

Cape Cod ladies don't have no frills,
Plain and skinny as codfish gills.

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from From Boston Harbor, released June 9, 2022

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Crosscurrents Music Boston, Massachusetts

Lynn Noel brings traditional song and heritage arts online to create community. Lynn has a voice of striking clarity and power, equally at home in rhythmic chanteys and flowing ballads.

Lynn is a respected song session leader on both sides of the Atlantic and the producer and host of the Mermaid's Tavern online folk club. She is currently Program Chair of the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA). ... more

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