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Rolling Down To Old Maui

from Thy Harbour Inn by Great Master

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    THY HARBOR INN is the fifth album by the Epic-Power metal band Great Master.

    An anthological album with a collection of historical and traditional seafaring songs of the anglo-saxon maritime culture (shanties), reinterpreted and rearranged in the style of the band, the album is placed after the success of Skull and Bones (tales from over the seas), which has collected many positive reviews from critics and audiences, as the conclusion of the narrative piratical themes parenthesis of the band.

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The first written evidence of the song dates back to around the mid-19th century, we hear the happiness of the crew expressed, tired by the polar climate, anxious to leave the Arctic sea to return to Maui (Hawaiian Islands). It’s a song for the hours of rest and leisure of the sailors.

lyrics

It's a damn tough life
Full of toil and strife
We whaler-men undergo
And we don't give a damn
When the gale is done
How hard the Winds did blow

For we're homeward bound
From the Arctic ground
With a good ship, taut and free
And we won't give a damn
When we drink our rum
With the girls Of old Maui
With the girls Of old Maui

Once more we sail
With the northerly gale
Through the ice and wind and rain
Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands
We soon shall see again

Six hellish months we've passed away
On the cold Kamchatka sea
But now we're bound from the Arctic ground
Rolling down to old Maui

Rolling down to old Maui, me boys
Rolling down to old Maui
We're homeward bound
From the Arctic ground
Rolling down to old Maui

Once more we sail with the northerly gale
Towards our island home
Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done
And we ain't got far to roam

Our stu'n's'l booms is carried away
What care we for that sound?
A living gale is after us, thank God
We're homeward bound!
Rolling down to old Maui, me boys
Rolling down to old Maui
We're homeward bound
From the Arctic ground
Rolling down to old Maui

How soft the breeze through the island trees
Now the ice is far astern
Them native maids, them tropical glades
Is awaiting our return
Even now their big brown eyes
Look outhoping some fine day to see
Our baggy sails, running 'fore the gales rolling Down to old Maui.

Rolling down to old Maui, me boys
Rolling down to old Maui
We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
Rolling down to old Maui

We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground
Rolling down to old Maui

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from Thy Harbour Inn, track released May 20, 2021

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