I learned this version from Peggy Day. (GB)
Take me back to my Western boat
Let me fish off Cape St. Mary's
Where the hagdowns sail and the foghorns wail,
With my friends, the Browns and the Clearys,
In the swells off old St. Mary's.
Let me feel my dory lift
To the broad Atlantic cumbers
Where the tide-rips swirl and the wild ducks furl
And the ocean calls the numbers...
In the swells off old St. Mary's.
Let me sail up golden bays
With my oilskins all a-streaming
From the thunder squall where I hauled my trawl,
And the old "Cape Ann" a-gleaming
In the swells off old St. Mary's.
Take me back to my Western boat
Let me fish off Cape St. Mary's
Where the hagdowns sail and the foghorns wail,
With my friends, the Browns and the Clearys,
In the swells off old St. Mary's.