Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Wiggly Version)



Six Months In A Leaky Boat is a song by Split Enz. In 2000, The Wiggles recorded the song with singer of Split Enz, Tim Finn and it appeared on It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!. The Wiggles have more recently been performing it live.

It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!

 * Tim Finn (Mushroom Music)
 * Lyrics reprinted by kind permission of Mushroom Music
 * Tim Finn appears courtesy of Mushroom Music
 * Vocals: Greg Page
 * Guitar: Murray Cook, Terry Murray
 * Bass: Murray Cook
 * Drums: Tony Henry
 * Violin: Maria Schattovits
 * Cello: Margaret Lindsay
 * Trumpet: Dominic Lindsay
 * Backing Vocals: Anthony Field, Jeff Fatt, Murray Cook
 * Musical Arrangements: The Wiggles, Dominic Lindsay
 * Recorded and Mixed by Chris Brooks, Tony Douglass
 * Mastered by Don Bartley
 * Recorded at Albert Studios, Sydney by Chris Brooks and Tony Douglass
 * Mastered at Studio 301 by Don Bartley
 * Published by Mushroom Music

Dorothy the Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas

 * Tim Finn (Mushroom Music)
 * Music Produced by: Anthony Field
 * Recorded and Engineered by: Ben Hardie, Alex Keller
 * Recorded at: Albert Studios, Hot Potato Studios
 * Mastered by Don Bartley
 * Captain Feathersword Vocals: Brad Carroll
 * Fernie Vocals: James Arthur Chen
 * Poppie Vocals: Kendall Goddard
 * Backing Vocals: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Anthony Field
 * Keyboard: Jeff Fatt
 * Bass Guitar: Murray Cook
 * Acoustic Guitar: Murray Cook, Terry Murray
 * Electric Guitar: Terry Murray
 * Drums/Percussion: Tony Henry
 * Trumpet: Dominic Lindsay
 * Violin: Maria Schattovits
 * Cello: Margaret Lindsay

Transcript
Greg: Well everybody, we got very special friend to meet now. His name is Tim Finn. Hi, Tim.

Tim: Hi, Greg.

Greg: Now where are you from, Tim?

Tim: I come from New Zealand or as the Marion people use to call it Aoteroa.

Greg: And what does that mean?

Tim: It means land of the long white cloud.

Greg: A-ha! And you've written a song for us today.

Tim: Yeah, we've written a song for the Captain, actually. It's called "Six Months in a Leaky Boat".

Greg: Wow, Six Months in a Leaky Boat! Well everybody, join in singing and dancing as we sing "Six Months in a Leaky Boat".

Lyrics
Paul: (as Captain Feathersword) “Ahoy there me hearties. Come for a trip with me,

Captain Feathersword, on my friendly pirate ship.

Whoah ho ho, but look out – its leaking”

Greg and Tim: When the captain was a young boy

He wanted to sail around the world

Paul: (as Captain Feathersword)“That’s the life for me, whoah ho

Living on the sea. Whoah ho ho ho”

Greg and Tim: The spirit of a sailor, sailing all around the globe

Paul: (as Captain Feathersword) “Round and round. I’m a buccaneer. Whoah ho

I’ll acknowledge no frontier. Ho ho ho ho”

Greg and Tim: I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky

Lightening flash, tempers flare

‘Round Cape Horn if you dare

I just spent six months in a leaky boat

Lucky just to keep afloat

La da da da ahh dad a do do do-doh

Aoteroa (Paul: (as Captain Feathersword) “Oh look, there’s New Zealand”)

Rugged individual

Glisten like a pearl (“Oh so shiny") Whoah ho”)

At the bottom of the world

(“Oh, down under. Yeah”)

The tyranny of distance (“Such a long way”)

Didn’t stop the buccaneer

“So why should it stop me?

Whoah ho. I’m sailing to be free”

Ah c’mon all you lads

Let’s forget and forgive

There’s a world to explore (“Let’s go exploring”)

Tales to tell back on shore

I just spent six months in a leaky boat (“Whoah ho”)

Six months in a leaky boat (“Whoah ho ho”)

La da da da ahh dad a do do do-doh

Paul: (as Captain Feathersword) ‘Come on now me hearties. Let’s do a pirate dance

Yo ho ho. Who ho ho. Oh, bend your knees now

That’s right. Whoah ho ho

Now you’re really dancing

Ho ho ho ho. Oh well done me hearties”

Greg and Tim: Ah c’mon all you lads

Let’s forget and forgive

There’s a world to explore (“Oh lets explore”)

Tales to tell back on shore

I just spent six months in a leaky boat (“Whoah ho”)

Nothing to it, leaky boat (“Oh no”)

La da da da ahh dad a do do do-doh

Trivia

 * The Wiggles and Tim Finn wrote their own lyrics for this song.
 * The song was first released in 1981.

Video Appearances

 * It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
 * The Wiggles' Big Big Show!
 * Dorothy's Rockin' Christmas

Album Appearances

 * It's a Wiggly Wiggly World!
 * Dorothy The Dinosaur's Rockin' Christmas