Sea Shanties

SPANISH LADIES

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies,
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain,
We've just received orders for to sail for old England<
We'll bid you goodbye till we see you again.

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We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
We'll rant ans we'll roar across the salt sea
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England<
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

We hove our ship to, with the wind at sou'west boys,
We hove our ship to, for to take soundings clear,
In fifty-five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom
We filled our main tops'l, up Channel to steer.

Chorus

The first land we made was the point called Deadman,
Next Ramshead of Plymouth, Start, Portland and Wight.
We sailed then by Beachie by Earlie and Dungerness<
Then bore straight away for the South Foreland Light.

Chorus

Now the signal was made for the Grand Fleet to anchor,
We clewed up our tops'ls, stuck out tacks and sheets,
We stood by our stoppers and brailed in our spankers,
And anchored ahead of the noblest of fleets.

Chorus

Let every man here drink up his full bumper,
Let every man here drink up his full bowl.
And let us be jolly and drown melancholy
Drink a health to each to each jovial and true-hearted soul.

Chorus