Rolling Home lyrics

Call all hands to man the capstan

See the cable running clear

Heave away and with a will, boys

For our homeland we will steer.

Let us all heave with a will, boys,

Soon our cable we will trip,

And across the briny ocean

We will steer our gallant ship.

Rolling home, rolling home

Rolling home across the sea

Rolling home to dear old England

Rolling home dear land to thee.

We will leave you our best wishes,

We will leave your rocky shores.

For we're bound to dear Old England,

To return to you no more.

Heave away now with a will, Boys.

Every hand you can clamp on

As we walk around the capstan

You will hear that well known song:

Fare you well, Australia's daughters

It is time to say adieu

We shall ne'er forget the hours

That we spent along with you.

Now Australia we are leavin'

For Old England give a cheer,

Fare thee well, ye dark-eyed damsels

Give three cheers for English beer!

Newborn breezes swiftly drive us

Back to childhood's bonnie skies

To the light of loving faces

And the gleam of kindly eyes.

And the wild waves cleft behind us

Seem to murmur as we go

Loving hearts and hands await us

In the land to which we go.

Up aloft amid the rigging

Blows a wild and rushing gale

Like a monsoon in the springtime

Filling out each well known sail.

Many thousand miles behind us

Many thousand miles before

Ere we reach our native country

To that well remembered shore.

Cheer up, Jack, bright smiles await you

From the fairest of the fair.

There are loving hearts to greet you

With kind welcomes everywhere.

And we'll sing in joyful chorus

In the watches of the night,

And we'll sight our land before us

When the grey dawn brings the light.