Four Hours | The Longest Johns Music Video

Four hours tells the tale of the brutal shift work done on ships, working four hours on, four hours off on repeat... We had the privilege of shooting this video aboard the SS Great Britain in our home town of Bristol.

This song is a Longest Johns original, written by former member, Josh Bowker and is available on our album, Cures What Ails Ya.

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Come me boys and heave with me
Let's get off this cursed sea
Let's be home to lovers and wives
And leave behind these four hour lives

{Chorus}
(Four Hours)
workin' on the swell
(Four Hours)
Sloggin' in the rain
(Four Hours)
Workin' to the bell and
(Four Hours)
'Til it starts again

Come me boys and heave with me
The wind's my friend and my enemy
It carries me home but it must be tamed
Everything lost or everything gained

{Chorus}

Come me boys and heave with me 
Got scabrous hands and bloody knees
But when the bell tolls, I'll go below
My hands will callus and my strength will grow

{Chorus}

Come me boys and heave away
Soaked and heavy heaving under the spray
Will I ever shed this salt on my brow?
Better the dust from under my plow

{Chorus}

When I'm back in Bristol town
I'll buy my love a silken gown
We'll lie in each others arms and rest
Until that bell sounds in my chest

{Chorus}

(Four Hours)
Haulin' on the sheets!
(Four Hours)
Keepin' our feet!
(Four Hours)
Wrap me in the shroud and
(Four Hours)
Lay me in the ground