Seán Dagher’s Shanty of the Week 12 Leave Her Johnny

This one is very well-known and I’ve sung it before, so I’m doing a new version with completely different verses. There exist dozens of verses so I’ve chosen a few different ones that I like a lot. You can get the songs at You can support the Shanty of the Week at Thanks to Patreon supporters Dennis Wiscount, Arcspel, Vlad Nical, Mike Carr, Erik Twombly, Gravel, Matt Werner, Aleksander Wasser, Cooper Chassé, and Graham Greve, Tom Liacas, Robert Nunn, Cameron Cole. Leave Her, Johnny - Lyrics 1. Oh my poor old mother, she wrote to me. She wrote me to come home from sea. 2. Beware those packet ships, I say. For they’ll steal your stores and your clothes away. 3. Oh I hope that you will never be, In a gallows hell, the likes of she. 4. We were made to pump all night and day, And we half-dead had beggar-all to say. 5. The Old Man swears, and the mate swears, too. The whole crew swears and so would