On Sampawams Creek, work boats
 Known as garveys,
 A type of boat with flat decks fore and aft,
 Built for clam diggers to stand and work
 With long tongs to grab the bay bottom
 To hoist and spill the contents
 Hard shell clams that clunk the deck
 As open tongs release quahogs.
 Washed, sorted, baged,
 This is real work, hard work, good work
 As long as the clams are there
Work Creek, Sampawams Creek now,.
 There are only a few clam boats left,
 Now mostly fiberglass pleasure boats
Back in the 60’s over fifty baymen
 Headed out into Babylon Cove
 To earn a day’s pay
 Their arm muscles bulged
 From hours of pulling in all kinds of weather
When they got their harvest,
 Headed back with sore arms,
 Onion bags filled with clams,
 Tossed over bulkheads,
 Loaded onto pickup trucks.
It was time to relax
 Pop cans of beer with comrades
 Making money the old fashioned way

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