Rolling Along The Longest Johns

[Verse 1]
It's a long way to Shanghai through the vast China Sea
The topsails are full but we're light on the breeze
With a good clip down-channel, and the passage looks calm
And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along

[Chorus]
Rolling along, boys, rolling along
And there's naught like a clipper just rolling along

[Verse 2]
'Tween the skeleton beach and the Cape of Good Hope
There are sandbars and reefs, boys, they'll give you a grope
To you skippers so daring, don't act too cock-sure
Or your ship may be wrecked and you'll sail her no more

[Chorus]
Sail her no more, boys, sail her no more
Or your ship may be wrecked and you'll sail her no more

[Verse 3]
There's pirates in waiting and storms to be tamed
The shoals all bear names of the ships that they claimed
But under our feet the warm waters that roll
Are blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold