Great Big Sea - Excursion 'Round The Bay

From "Great Big Sea" (1991) (Johnny Burke) Well it was [G]on this Monday morning and the day be calm and fine To the [D7]Harbour Grace excursion with the [G]boys to [D7]have a [G]time And just before the sailor took the [C]gangway from the [G]pier I [C]saw some fella [G/D]haul me wife a[D7]board the Volun[G]teer CHORUS: Oh [G]me, oh my, I heard me old wife cry Oh [D7]me, oh my, I [G]think I'm [D7]gonna [G]die! Oh me, oh my, I [C]heard me old wife [G]say, "I [C]wish I'd never [G/D]taken this ex[D]cursion around the [G]bay" We had [G]full three hundred souls aboard, oh what a splendid sight! Matt [D7]Strange in regimentals to [G]make our [D7]spirits [G]bright And meself being in the double, from the [C]funny things they'd [G]say They [C]choke themselves from [G/D]laughing when they'd [D7]see us in the [G]bay CHORUS Me [G]wife she got no better, she turned a sickly green I [D7]fed her cake and [G]candy, fat [D7]pork and kero[G]sene Castor Oil and sugar of candy, I rubbed [C]pure oil on her [G]face And I [C]said she'll be a [G/D]dandy when we [D7]reaches Harbour [G]Grace! CHORUS My [G]wife she got no better, my wife me darling dear The [D7]screeches from our [G]trollie you could [D7]hear in Carbo[G]near I tried every place in Harbour Grace, tried [C]every store and [G]shop, To [C]get her something [G/D]for a cure or [D7]take her to the [G]hop CHORUS She [G]died below the brandies as we were coming back We [D7]buried her in the [G]ocean, wrapped [D7]up in a Union [G]Jack So now I am a single man, in [C]search of a pretty [G]face And the [C]woman that says she'll [G/D]have me, I'm [D7]off for Harbour [G]Grace! CHORUS