Words: Robert S. Smith
Music: Robbie C. Smith
Ho hum – here we come smuggling in the booty
Right by the customs’ eye and the federal duty
Ho hum ye demon rum slithering in the harbour
Through the fog a hold of grog bound for smuggler’s barter
And it’s ears pealed and lips sealed and eyes to the fog before us
Think quick and move slick – the bootlegger’s waitin’ for us
Heave ho the kegs overboard into the dory
Ho hum the rum is come
Instrumental break
Ho hum – fingers numb – steering her by an old wreck
Running low the crew go scurrying on the poopdeck
Ho hum – some glum – bidding the booty bye bye
Away we go to get some mo’ to keep the lubbers pie-eyed
And it’s ears pealed and lips sealed and eyes to the fog before us
Think quick and move slick – the bootlegger’s waitin’ for us
Heave ho the kegs overboard into the dory
Ho hum the rum is come
And it’s ears pealed and lips sealed and eyes to the fog before us
Think quick and look slick – the bootlegger’s waitin’ for us
Heave ho the kegs overboard into the dory
Ho hum the rum is come – ho hum the rum is come
Ho hum the rum is…