Oh, Kay! movie

Oh, Kay! movie - When Our Ship Comes Sailing In lyrics

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1st Verse<br>

DUKE:<br>

We stand watching the horizon,<br>

Casting anxious eager eyes on<br>

All the little ships as they go passing by.<br>

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POTTER:<br>

How we're hoping, how we're yearning,<br>

For a safe and sound returning.<br>

Are we soon to see our ship against the sky?<br>

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SHORTY:<br>

Anyone who's ever waited on a pier<br>

Will appreciate our feeling here.<br>

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ALL:<br>

What a tender welcome we will give our friends<br>

As their journey ends.<br>

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1st Refrain<br>

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When our ship comes sailing in-<br>

We will shout our joy<br>

With a "Ship ahoy!"<br>

Then our glad days will begin<br>

When we start unloading the gin.<br>

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DUKE:<br>

Our guilty conscience we will try to smother;<br>

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SHORTY:<br>

We'll hail each Prohibitionist a brocher,<br>

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POTTER:<br>

And sell a dozen cases to his mother!<br>

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ALL:<br>

When our ship comes sailing in -<br>

Full of Haig and Haig and gin!<br>

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2nd Verse<br>

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DUKE:<br>

Just imagine our position,<br>

Think of all the competition<br>

That we've got along the whole Atlancic shore.<br>

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SHORTY:<br>

From Southhampton to Miami,<br>

Coast patrols of Uncle Sammy<br>

On our business are declaring open war.<br>

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POTTER:<br>

You would think that what we're doing was a crime -<br>

Helping you to have a decent time.<br>

Congressmen and Senators kick up a fuss -<br>

Then they buy from us!<br>

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2nd refrain<br>

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When our ship comes sailing in -<br>

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DUKE:<br>

When our ship of dreams<br>

Through the harbor steams,<br>

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ALL:<br>

Then our glad days will begin<br>

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POTTER:<br>

Mr. Volstead, pardon our sin.<br>

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DUKE:<br>

There's champagne in our cargo that will please ya!<br>

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POTTER:<br>

Just give your girl a case and she will squeeze ya!<br>

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SHORTY:<br>

(She needn't know we mixed it wich magnesia!)<br>

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ALL:<br>

When our ship comes sailing in -<br>

Full of Haig and Haig and gin!<br>

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3rd Refrain<br>

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When our ship comes sailing in -<br>

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DUKE:<br>

Ev'ry worry gone -<br>

How we'll carry on!<br>

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ALL<br>

Boy! It's great when dreams come true<br>

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DUKE:<br>

And you see your ship on the blue.<br>

But, oh, the risk! It's paining us to tell of it! <br>

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SHORTY:<br>

The money that we get is not all vel-e-vet;<br>

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POTTER:<br>

The cops take all our profits - that's the hell of it.<br>

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ALL:<br>

When our ship comes sailing in -<br>

Full of Haig and Haig and gin!<br>

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