The Good Ship Calibar Guitar Chords And Lyrics

A traditional song that was recorded by Tommy Makem and The Clancy Brothers. I'm not too sure about the title being spelt ''Calibar''  as others have the spelling ''Calabar''

Come (A)all ye dry land sail-i-ars
And listen (G)to my (A)song 
It's only forty verses 
And I (G)won't detain you's (A)long 
It's all about the adventures 
Of (G)this old (D)Lisburn (A)tar 
Who sailed as man before the mast 
On the good ship (G)Cali(A)bar

Now the (A)Calibar was a spanking craft 
Pitch bottomed (G)for and (A)aft 
Her helm, it stuck out far behind 
And her (G)wheel was a great big (A)shaft 
With half a gale to fill her sail 
She'd (G)do a (D)knot an (A)hour 
She's the fastest craft on the Lagan Canal 
And she's only (G)one horse (A)power

Now, the (A)captain was a strapping lad 
And he stood just (G)four foot (A)two 
His eyes was red and his nose was green 
And his (G)cheeks was a prussian (A)blue 
He wore a leather medal 
That he (G)won in the (D)Crimea (A)War 
And the captain's wife was the passenger cook 
On the good ship (G)Cali(A)bar

Now, the (A)captain say to me "Me lad 
Look here, me (G)lad" says (A)he 
"Would you's like to be a sail-i-ar 
And (G)sail the raging (A)sea? 
Would you's like to be a sail-i-ar 
On (G)foreign (D)seas to (A)roll 
For we're under orders from Portadown 
With a half a (G)ton of (A)coal"

It (A)was early next morning 
The weather it (G)being su(A)blime 
When passing under the old Queen's Bridge 
We (G)heard the Albert's (A)chime 
When going along the gaswork straits 
A (G)very dange(D)rous (A)part 
We ran ahole on a lump of coal 
That wasn't marked (G)down on the (A)chart

Then (A)all became cunfuse-i-en 
And the stormy (G)winds did (A)blow 
The bos'n slipped on an orange peel 
Fell (G)into the hold be(A)low 
"Put on more speed" the captain cried 
"For (G)we are (D)sorely (A)pressed" 
But the engineer from the bank replied 
"The horse is (G)doing his (A)best"

Then we (A)all fell into the water 
And we all let (G)out a (A)roar 
There was a farmer standing there 
And he (G)threw us the end of his ga(A)lloses 
And he (G)pulled us (D)all a(A)shore 
No more I'll be a sail-i-ar 
Or (G)sail the (D)raging (A)main 
And the next time I go to Portadown 
I'll go by the (G)bloody (A)train 

The Clancy brothers [ songs ] and later joined by Tommy Makem shot to fame way back in the early 60's
in the U.S.  and had a huge influence on folk and 
traditional music. Having no work in Ireland Tom
and Paddy went to America to make a living.
It all started in the 50's when they played a 
few gigs to support their theater work.
They were earning more money doing the singing
than the theater work and decided to go all
out at the Irish ballads. The lads recorded their first
album in New York in 1956. Along with Tommy and
Paddy there were now 2 other members in the group,
Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem.