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There once was a fisherman father who lived way down by the seashore.
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He dwelled in a broken down shanty where planks made a living room floor.
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But he had the prettiest daughter that ever had lived at the cove,
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The topic of male conversation, the seven seas over by jove.


[Verse 2]

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And every young man that went fishing way out on the sea waters high
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Can say that she told them she loved them, they loved her and for her they'd die.
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But oh this young queen was a wild one. She tried to brand every man's heart.
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She never would listen to Daddy so you see how she got a bad start.


[Verse 3]

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Her mother's last words to her father when she died ten long years ago,
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"Be good, Dear, to your loving daughter. Don't ever be harsh to her, Joe."
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But how many times since that parting has she been led far astray?
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And how many nights in a barroom has she drank the wee hours away?


[Verse 4]

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How many drunken men hollered and fought for their lives for her smile?
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She'd mark a man's face for a lifetime with a knife or a fingernail file.
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She had as much courage as beauty, snd in her dark eyes there was war.
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And if any man doubted her daring, she'd sail where the white waters roar.


[Verse 5]

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She became known as Shanty Town Sharon, then came the death of her dad.
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She'd built her own ship by the seashore, and here's the wild notion she had.
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She made her way down to the barroom to challenge all fisherman bold.
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I know that you've all heard the legend about the reef only devils do hold.


[Verse 6]

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"Now if no man will sail to my starboard, I'll cross that great reef all alone."
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Her pretty dark eyes became wilder while outside the ocean did groan.
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She took her last drink and departed to sail where those reef waters roar.
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But 'twas tragic how poor Sharon's body next morning washed up on the shore.