Shanghaied Again Songtext
von The Irish Rovers

She said that she loved me and would always be true
And I told her that I loved her too
And though we′d just met there was magic that night
Like a book, it was love at first sight

Then she took me upstairs with a smile and a wink
But the sweetheart had fiddled my drink
And when I awoke she was not next to me
For I was two hundred miles out on the salt sea
One, two, three

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I'm a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?

Just home from sea and glad was I
To be on solid ground
I swore to god that nevermore
Would I leave Belfast town


I sold all my cold weather gear
To some naïve young tar
And with me pockets jingling
I stopped in the harbour bar

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I′m a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?

Well straight way she came up to me
And took me by the arm
Her angel looks beguiled me
And I thought, "Ah, what's the harm"

We drank, we laughed, we kissed and cooed
Just like true lovers do
'Twas then she whispered in me ear:
"I think that I love you"

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I′m a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?


I scarcely could believe me luck
As we went up the stairs
She gave to me a glass of wine
As she unpinned her hair

I drank it quick as lightning
As she let her red dress fall
Her naked beauty is the
Very last thing I recall

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I′m a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?

I woke aboard a sailing ship
Me pour ould head was sore
Out among the rolling waves
Far from the shamrock shore

No weather gear to keep me warm
No one to pity me
'Twas then I wished that I was dead
Put out of misery

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I′m a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?

So here I am, a sadder man
But wiser just the same
I've learned me lesson well this time
I know her little game

She took me pride, she broke me heart
She stole me money too
No more I′ll trust those pretty girls
Likewise their witch's brew

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I′m a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?

Shanghaied again it serves me right
For I'm a drunken fool
She made me fall for her delights
How could she be so cruel?