Haul Away Joe - Robert Shaw Chorale

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away the lowland

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

Way, haul away, the packet is a rolling

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

Way, haul away, we’ll hang and haul together

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

Way, haul away, we’ll haul for better weather

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

King Louis was the king of France

Before the revolution

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

King Louis got his head cut off

And spoiled his constitution

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

When I was a little boy

And so my mother told

Way, haul away, Way, haul away

That if I didn’t kiss the girls

My lips would grow all moldy

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away the lowland

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

Way, haul away, the packet is a rolling

Way, haul away, we’ll haul away Joe!

Haul away Joe!

Haul away Joe!

Packet — a ship traveling at regular intervals

between two ports, originally for the

conveyance of mail.

Sung for short hauling jobs requiring a few bursts of great force,

such as changing direction of sails or hauling taut the corners

of sails.