Mike McKenna Jr

Lyrics

When I first came to Caledonia
And I got loadin at Number 3
And I got boardin with Donald Norman
He had a daughter she made good tea

And it was me and me brother Charlie
Two biggest shavers you ne’er seen
We were spearin eels in the month of April
Left to starve out on Scaterie

And I went to Norman’s to buy some brogues and
A cake of soap and a pound of tea
But Norman said I could not have them
‘Til fish got plenty on Scaterie

I went over to the big harbour
I only went for to see the spray
And I saw a girl from Boularderie over
She seemed to me like the Queen of May

If I had a pen from Pennsylvania
If I had a paper so snowy white
If I had an ink from a rosey morning
A true lover letter to you I’d write

If I lay to a cask of brandy
And it’s a dandy I do declare
For when I’m drinknin I’m seldom thinkin
How I could gain that young lady fair

Well when I first came to Caledonia
And I got loadin at Number 3
And I got boardin with Donald Norman
He had a daughter she made good tea