Oceana Roll-Beatrice Kay

[ti:Oceana Roll] [ar:Beatrice Kay] [al:The Naughty Nineties] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Oceana Roll - Beatrice Kay [00:14.96]Billy McCoy [00:16.18]Was a musical boy [00:18.09]On the cruiser Alabama [00:20.16]Was there at that piana [00:21.72]Like a fish down in the sea [00:24.63] [00:25.38]Oh when he rattle off some harmony [00:28.18] [00:29.07]Every night out on the ocean [00:31.05]He would get that raggy notion [00:32.98]Start that syncopated motion lovingly [00:36.32] [00:36.83]And no one could sleep [00:38.67] [00:39.25]Way out there on the deep [00:42.36]Oh when Billy cut loose out at sea [00:45.41] [00:45.92]Each fish and worm [00:47.78]Begins to twist and squirm [00:50.17]The ship knocks into dip [00:51.64]And does a corkscrew turn [00:53.53]You see that smoke so black [00:55.37]Sneak from that old smokestack [00:56.99] [00:57.67]It's float right to heaven [00:59.20]And it won't come back [01:01.05]Now here and there [01:02.79]You'll see a stool and chair [01:04.46] [01:05.05]A slipping round the cabin [01:06.65]Sharpen I don't care [01:08.49]And then the hammock starts a swinging [01:10.42]And the bell begins a ringing [01:12.27]While he's sitting at that piana [01:14.80]There on the Alabama [01:16.72]Playing the Oceana Roll [01:19.22] [01:27.58]England and Spain [01:29.09]It was always the same [01:30.93]He'd be there at the piana [01:32.82]On the cruiser Alabama [01:34.57]Every morning noon and night [01:38.07]He would keep it up with all his might [01:41.23] [01:41.82]Every time he started playing [01:43.83]All the boys would start a swaying [01:45.69]Everyone would keep on saying [01:47.50]Don't you stop [01:48.60] [01:49.86]Sailors take care [01:51.57] [01:52.13]Oh you sailors beware [01:55.59]For bill will play on till you drop [01:58.84]Each fish and worm [02:00.74]Begins to twist and squirm [02:03.02]The ship knocks into dip [02:04.51]And does a corkscrew turn [02:06.25]You see the smoke so black [02:07.99]Sneak from that old smokestack [02:09.30] [02:10.19]It's floating right to heaven [02:11.82]And it won't come back [02:13.57]Now here and there [02:15.18]You'll see a stool and chair [02:16.74] [02:17.49]A slipping round the cabin [02:19.03]Sharpen I don't care [02:20.70]And then the hammock starts a swinging [02:22.68]And the bell begins a ringing [02:24.47]While he's sitting at that piana [02:27.02]There on the Alabama [02:28.82]Playing the Oceana [02:30.57]Running the Oceana [02:32.38]Knowing the Oceana Roll