The jolly English Yellowboy

The jolly English Yellowboy

Is a 'ansome coin when new,

The Yankee Double-eagle

Is large enough for two.

O, these may do for seaport towns,

For cities these may do;

But the dibbs that takes the Hislands

Are the dollars of Peru:

O, the fine Pacific Hislands,

O, the dollars of Peru!

It's there we buy the cocoanuts

Mast 'eaded in the blue;

It's there we trap the lasses

All awaiting for the crew;

It's there we buy the trader's rum

What bores a seaman through......

In the fine Pacific Hislands

With the dollars of Peru:

In the fine Pacific Hislands

With the dollars of Peru!

Now, messmates, when my watch is up

And I am quite broached to,

I'll give a tip to 'Evving

Of the 'ansome thing to do:

Let 'em just refit this sailor-man

And launch him off anew

To cruise among the Hislands

Of the dollars of Peru:

In the fine Pacific Hislands

With the dollars of Peru!