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Colum Sands
	Year:	1996
	Album:	ALL MY WINDING JOURNEYS
	Song:	Jackson, Johnson, Jameson and I
Words & Music Colum Sands, Elm Grove Music Colum Sands: vocals, guitar, tin wistle, Ben Sands: mandoline, backing vocals Anne Sands: Backing Vocals Liam Bradley: Drums/percussion Liam O'Flynn: Uilleann Pipes
Sure as I went a walking one fine day Along with a couple of pals so gay The was Jackson, Johnson, Jameson and me And on what a jolly old time had we Now Jackson proposed we should go for a row So out in a jolly boat we all did go Well we weren't long out til the boat upset And there's no need to tell you that we all got wet But we wriggled and we giggled and we laughed hee hee Drowning in the river was the quare oul spree And the people on the banks sure they laughed til they cried At Jackson Johnson Jameson and I They managed us ashore amidst great alarm We were then conveyed to a country farm Where they rubbed us and scrubbed us to being us to And we drank hot whiskey til our ears turned blue Well we sat down together and we hung up our clothes In front of the fire, for to dry I suppose Well they dried and they dried til they couldn't be no drier And there's no need to tell you that our clothes caught fire But we wriggled and we giggled and we laughed hee hee Our eight shilling suits were ablaze you see And wrapped up in blankets we cut a guy Jackson Johnson Jameson and I There was nothing but our hat and our boots to be found The rest of our clothes they were burnt to the ground So we made an application to farmer John As we couldn't go around without our trousers on Now the farmer's sons were middle sized boys And they wore knicky buckers that were made of corduroys When we got inside them we did look flat With our boots of patent leather and our tall silk hats But we wriggled and we giggled and we laughed hee hee We were a pretty sight the world for to see And all along the streets, the dogs did fly At Jackson Johnson Jameson and I