Music Of The Waters - online book

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

	Music of the Waters.               59
	Purcell.
	" Full fathom five thy father lies ; Of his bones are coral made ; Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Chonis.—Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell; Hark ! now I hear them—ding-dong, bell." Then there is Stephano's half-drunken— " I shall no more to sea, to sea ; Here shall I die ashore. ***** The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I, The gunner and his mate Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery, But none of us cared for Kate ; For she had a tongue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor ' go hang!' Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang! " Caliban, too, like many a modern tar, has a line or two on his past hardships in " The Still-vex'd Bermoothes " :—