Sugar and spice, tastes of paradise   I long to roam far from home   A life at sea - that's the life for me   Starboard starlight each and every night      I saw three ships a-sailing   Upon the ocean blue   Bringing bells from Burma, beans from Lima   And tin from Timbuktu      Oh, heave-ho, anchors a-way we go      I swear on all the tea in China that   There could be nothing finer than      Riding the breeze over the seven seas   I'll sail with her, aye aye sir   She's tall she's broad, gen'rous of plank and board   Farewell to shore   We're bound for Singapore      Got a Madagascan monkey and a Polynesian bird   Got a headful of the strangest things you ever heard      White whales, tall tales, mermaid's fingernails   A life at sea, that's the life for me