[DUKE]
We stand watching the horizon
Casting anxious eager eyes on
All the little ships as they go passing by

[LARRY]
How we're hoping, how we're yearning
For a safe and sound returning
Are we soon to see our ship against the sky?

[SHORTY]
Anyone who's ever waited on a pier
Will appreciate our feeling here

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
What a tender welcome we will give our friends
As their journey ends

When our ship comes sailing in
We will shout our joy
With a "Ship ahoy!"
Then our glad days will bеgin
When we start unloading the gin

[DUKE]
Our guilty consciеnce we will try to smother
[SHORTY]
We'll hail each Prohibitionist a brother

[LARRY]
And sell a dozen cases to his mother

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
When our ship comes sailing in
Full of Haig and Haig and gin

[DUKE]
Just imagine our position
Think of all the competition
That we've got along the whole Atlantic shore

[SHORTY]
From Southampton to Miami
Coast patrols of Uncle Sammy
On our business are declaring open war

[LARRY]
You would think that what we're doing was a crime
Helping you to have a decent time

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
Congressmen and senators kick up a fuss
Then they buy from us!
When our ship comes sailing in

[DUKE]
When our ship of dreams
Through the harbor steams

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
Then our glad days will begin

[LARRY]
Mr. Volstead, pardon our sin

[DUKE]
There's Champagne in our cargo that will please ya

[LARRY]
Just give your girl a case and she will squeeze ya

[SHORTY]
She needn't know we mixed it with magnesia

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
When our ship comes sailing in
Full of Haig and Haig and gin

[DUKE & LARRY]
When our ship comes sailing in (Oh, when our ship comes sailing in)
[SHORTY]
There she goes

[DUKE]
Every worry gone
How we'll carry on

[LARRY]
Hallelujah!

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
Boy, it's great when dreams come true
And you see your ship on the blue

[LARRY]
I do

[SHORTY]
We do

[DUKE]
But, oh, the risk, it's paining us to tell of it

[SHORTY]
The money that we get is not all vel-e-vit

[LARRY]
The cops take all our profits, that's the hell of it

[DUKE, LARRY & SHORTY]
When our ship comes sailing in
Full of Haig and Haig and gin