Tom's Gone To Hilo
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com
Oh, Tommy's gone, what shall I do? Hilo, Hilo!
My Tommy's gone, and I'll go too, My Tom's gone to Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone to Liverpool, Hilo, Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone to Liverpool, My Tom's gone to Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone to Singapore, Hilo, Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone to Singapore, My Tom's gone to Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone to Boneys Airs, Hilo, Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone to Boneys Airs, My Tom's gone to Hilo!
And so on ad lib., the last verse being
My Tommy's gone for ever more - Hilo, Hilo!
My Tommy's gone for ever more -
My Tom's gone to Hilo!
The author of this website has put a lot of time and effort into gathering the greatest collection of sea shanties for the world to enjoy - There are songs that have been to sung to a job of work at sea for many, many years and collecting them has been a great endeavour. - Roger Chartier has made the effort out of his own interest and the requests that he has gotten to do this work from fellow musicians who wanted a good source of sea shanties to draw on and learn from. He has been told that for this effort he is a remarkable man.
