When first I came to Caledonia, I got started in Number 3
I got lodgings with Donald Norman, he had a daughter who made good tea
And there was me and my brother Charlie, two big a shavers you never did see
We're spiking eels in the month of April, and starving slaves out on Scataree
And I went down to Donald Normans, to buy my boots and a pound of tea
But Donal said that he could not give them, til fish got plenty on Scataree
So I took my self down to the harbor, all on purpose for to see the spray
I spied a maiden from the lodgery over, one look from her took my breath away
If I had pen from Pennsylvania, if I had paper of the purest white
If I had ink of the rosy morning, a true love note unto you I'd write
To wish I was on the deepest ocean, as far from land as I ever could be
Sailing over the deepest water, where a woman's love would not bother me
I'd lay my head to a cast of brandy, oh it's a dandy I do declare
For when I'm drinking I'm seldom thinking, on how I lost that young female fair
On how I lost that young female fair
When first I came to Caledonia, I got started in Number 3
I got lodgings with Donald Norman, he had a daughter who made good tea