Discover the story of the song > Leave Her, Johnny – Stan Rogers

The lyrics are about a group of people on a ship who are being told to leave the ship. The old man says that it is time to leave because they have finished their voyage and there is no wind to sail. The work was hard and the captain and mate were not nice, and they had to eat rotten food. Now, they have finished pumping the water out of the ship and it is time for them to say goodbye and leave.