Aether Shanties - Abney Park

My arms aching, back’s breaking, legs aching neck

And this whole ruddy ship is a huge creaking wreck

Flown ten thousand miles with this thorn in our sides

My arms aching, back’s breaking, legs aching neck

And this whole ruddy ship is a huge creaking wreck

Flown ten thousand miles with this thorn in our sides

Though the wind’s steady strong with no clouds in the skies

The ropes creaking, ship’s leaking, sails are on fire

And this whole bloody ship could go up like a pyre

We’ve got smiles on our faces, but we’ve seen this before

No telling just now what we have in store

The back-stabbing, loot-nabbing plans behind doors

Running low on the rum and depleting our stores

Can’t tell who’s on our side and who’s ready to flip

When we hit the next port the whole crew could jump ship

With the moods flaring, crew’s glaring, cut-throats the lot

With a paranoid captain always smelling a plot

We’ve worked hard on this journey, but there’s no land in sight

And before it’s all ended there could be a fight

My arms aching, back’s breaking, legs aching neck

And this whole ruddy ship is a huge creaking wreck

Flown ten thousand miles with this thorn in our sides

Though the wind’s steady strong with no clouds in the skies

The ropes creaking, ship’s leaking, sails are on fire

And this whole bloody ship could go up like a pyre

We’ve got smiles on our faces, but we’ve seen this before

No telling just now what we have in store