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Viewing Lyrics for The Ship In Distress:
| | | Artist: | Lloyd |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | The Ship In Distress | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 254 | | | | Lyrics: | The Ship in Distress
You seamen bold that plough the ocean,
What dangers landsmen do
never know.
The sun gangs over old England's nation;
No tongue can tell what you go
through.
Through bitter storms in the height of battle,
Now mark you well what I
do say,
Where thund'ring cannons loudly rattle
There's no back door to run
away.
Of a merchant ship there was a captain;
A long time they bad been drove on
sea.
The weather proved to them so uncertain,
Which brought them to extremity.
Nothing on board poor souls to nourish,
Nor to strengthen their feeble arms;
The
whole ship's crew were nearly starving,
The men were nothing but skin and bone.
The
cats and dogs how they did eat them,
Hunger proving to them severe;
Captain and men of one
direction
They all of them went equal shares.
At length, at length the hour came on
them,
The hour came on them most bitterly.
Poor fellows all stood titter
totter,
Casting lots which of them should die.
The lot was cast on one poor
fellow
Which had a wife at home on shore,
But to think of eating our fellow
creatures
It was that which grieved us ten times more.
'l am willing to die,'this
young man answered,
But to the topmast haste away,
For perhaps some help you may
discover
While I unto the Lord do pray.'
The captain said he spied a
vessel
About a league from us or more,
Some signals of distress were fired
And soon
for us away she bore.
And soon we got provisions plenty,
And far from all such
deadly fear,
To see such pity they took upon us
You could not help but shed a
tear.
But now we're happy in old England
And far from all such deadly
fear,
We'll drink unto our wives and sweethearts
And unto all we love so dear.
May God protect all jolly sailors
And all that plough the raging main;
May they
never see no more such trials
And never know the like again.
From Oxford Book of Sea
Songs, Palmer
Somewhat different version recorded by Killen, 40 North to 40
North and
by Lloyd (Haul on the Bowline)?
@sailor @cannibal
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