The Ryans And The Pittmans (We'll Rant and We'll Roar)
by H. W. Lemessurier, 1848-1931
Chorus:
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders
We'll rant and we'll roar on deck and below.
Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers
When straight through to channel to Toslow we'll go.
My name it is Robert, they call me Bob Pittman,
I sail in the Ino with Skipper Tim Brown.
I’m bound to have Polly, or Biddy, or Molly,
as soon as I’m able to plank the cash down.
Chorus
I'm a son of a sea-cook, and a cook in a trader,
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main boom.
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a fine figure
whenever I gets in a boat's standing room.
Chorus
If the voyage is good, then this fall I will do it,
I wants two pound ten for a ring and a priest
A couple of dollars for clean shirt and collars
and a handful of coppers to make up a feast.
Chorus
There's plump little Polly, her name is Goldsworthy,
there's John Coady's Kitty and Mary Tibbo.
There's Clara from Bruley, and young Martha Foley,
but the nicest of all is my girl in Toslow.
Chorus
I’ve bought me a house from Katherine Davis,
a twenty-pound bed from Jimmy McGrath,
I’ll get me a settle a pot and a kettle,
then I’ll be ready for Biddy…hurrah!
Chorus (twice)
Read more about this song at the Musical Map of Newfoundland and Labrador, https://musicalmapnl.ca/song/192