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Intro

C....G.... played many times over

 I love to look out at the sea

 From the swaying park quay at Roome Bay beach

 Today John Taylor starts his month away

 On a boat one 10 miles east of Aberdeen

[and so on...]

A dozen men, thirty days

With 24 hours in each

Of shattered boyhood dreams

And not much sleep

I'd much rather be me

For once I'd much rather be me

A month at sea

And then they'll surely sleep

With their heads

Still stuck on land

A month on land

And they'll surely dream

Of girls they can afford

But cannot have

And in a drunken haze

They're on the rolling wave

Once again I'd much rather be me

I'd rather be me

Once again I'd much rather be me

For once again I'd much rather be me