We'll Rant & We'll Roar

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

My name, it is Robert, they call me Bob Pittman

Sail on the Ino with skipper, Tim Brown

I'm bound to have Polly or Biddy or Molly

Just as soon as I'm able to bang the cash down

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

I'm the a son of a sea cook and a cook and a trader

I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main boom

I can handle a jigger and I cuts a fine figure

Whenever I gets in a boat's standing room

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

If the voyage is good, then this fall I will do it

I wants two pound ten for a ring and the priest

And a couple of dollars for clean shirt and collars

And a handful of coppers to make up a feast

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

There's plump little Polly, her name is Goldsworthy

There's John Coady's Kitty and Mary Tibbo

There's Clara from Bruley and young Martha Foley

But the nicest of all is my girl in Toslow

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

Farewell and adieu to ye fair ones of Valen

Farewell and adieu to ye girls in the Cove

I'm bound to the westward, to the wall with the hole in

I'll take her from Toslow the wild world to rove

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

Well, I went to a dance one night in Fox Harbor

There was plenty of girls, as nice as you wish

I spied a young maiden chewin' on frankgum

Just like a wee kitten gnawing fresh fish

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

I've bought me a house from swet Katherine Davis

A 20 pound bed from Jimmy McGrath

I'll get me a settle, a pot and a kettle

And then I'll be ready for Biddy, hurrah!

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go

Then here is a health to the girls of Fox Harbor

Oderin and Presque, Crabbes Hole and Bruley

Now let ye be jolly, don't be melancholy

For I can't marry all or in chokey I'll be

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders

We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below

Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers

When it's straight through the channel to Toslow we'll go