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Do Me Ama, or Jack The Sailor, or Pull The String

from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs by Paul Carbuncle

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As a sailor was walking one fine summer's day
A squire and a lady were making their way
And the sailor he heard the squire say
‘Tonight with you, love, I mean to stay, with my
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day

You must tie a string all around your finger
With the other end of the string hanging out the window
And I’ll come by and I’ll pull that string
And you must come down, love, and let me in, with my
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day’

Thinks Jack to himself, ‘I’ve a mind to try
To see if a poor sailor he can’t win that prize’
That night he stole up and he pulled the string
And the lady come down and she let old Jack in, with his
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day

Well the squire come by, he was humming a song
Thinking to himself how it wouldn’t be long
But when he got there no string he found
Behold, his hopes was all dashed to the ground, and that
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day

Well early next morning, it was just getting light
The lady jumped out of bed in a terrible fright
For there lay Jack in his tarry old shirt
His hands and his face was all covered in dirt, and that
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day

‘Oh what do you want, you tarry sailor,
Breaking in a lady’s bedroom to steal her treasure?’
‘Oh no’ says Jack, ‘I just pulled that string
And you did come down, ma’m, and let me in, with my
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day’

The sailor he says, ‘Oh forgive me, I pray
I’ll steal away very quiet at the dawn of the day’
‘Oh no’ says the lady, ‘Don’t go too far
For I never will part from my jolly Jack Tar, and that
Do-me-ama, dee-me-ama, do-me-ama-day’

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from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs, released April 9, 2018
Traditional song, arranged by Paul Carbuncle.

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