
Lyrics
(Folk song)
Have you heard the news, my Johnny
One more day!
We’re homeward bound tomorrow
Only one more day!
Refrain
One more day, me Johnny,
One more day!
Oh rock and row me over,
One more day!
Don’t you hear the old man growlin’
One more day!
Don’t you hear the mate a howlin’
Only one more day! Refrain
Don’t you hear the old man callin’
One more day!
Don’t you hear the pilot bawlin’
Only one more day! Refrain
Only one more day a-rollin’
One more day!
Can’t you hear the gulls a-callin’
Only one more day! Refrain
Heave and sight the anchor, Johnny
One more day!
For we’re close ‘board the port, Johnny
Only one more day! Refrain
Put on your long-tail blue, Johnny
One more day!
For your payday’s nearly due.
Only one more day! Refrain
We’re homeward bound today, Johnny
One more day!
We’ll leave her without sorrow, Johnny
Only one more day! Refrain
No more gales or heavy weather
One more day!
Only one more day together
Only one more day! Refrain
Only one more day, my Johnny,
One more day!
O, rock and roll me over.
Only one more day! Refrain
See also
- Subject: sea shanties
- Form: call and response / AB
- Harmony: chords I & V
- Melody: dominant triad
- Meter: 4
- Scale: hexatonic
- Tones: drmfst
- Source: The International Book of Folk Songs, Norman Luboff, Win Stracke, Walton Music Corp, 1965
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody

