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Yellow Gal

Pitching in my bunk with the yellow gal,
Riding out a storm with that yellow gal.

Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal,
Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal.

Rolling on the breakers and sinking in the swell,
Riding all night on that yellow gal.

Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal,
Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal.

I put my feet on firm ground and left that yellow gal.
But now I'm reeling like drunk just as beat as hell.
She came out from behind me and I heard her yell:
Tell me how do you like what I've got to sell?

Didn't catch a wink with that yellow gal,
Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal.

Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal,
Yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow gal.

(lyrics: Phil Motherwell - Music: Joe Dolce)

(Convicts in transportation from England to the Colonies, Australia, and Norfolk Island often came down with malaria either on the voyage or on the prisonship hulks where they were 'stored'. Yellow Gal was one of the terms given to this disease.)

 

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