Music Of The Waters - online book

Sailors' Chanties, Songs Of The Sea, Boatmen's, Fishermen's,
Rowing Songs, & Water Legends with lyrics & sheet music

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	46               Music of the Waters.
	The next is a drinking-song :— Chorus.—" Then we'll drink and be jolly, and drown melan­choly, Our spirits to cherish, our hopes and our lives, And we'll pay all our debts with a flying top­sail ; And so bid adieu to our sweethearts and wives." The following is very patriotic :— Chorus.—" On the glorious, the second of April, all at the dawn of the day, We unreefed our topsails, and then we wore away ; Lord Nelson on the poop did stand, With his spy-glass all in his hand, And all he said, as we pushed for the land, Was, ' Steady, and cheer up, ho.' " The following used to be one of the most popular songs in the Black X Line. I make no false statement when I say that it is true melody, and deservedly popular. The words are about as unintelligible as the most of them are :—