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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114 Music of the Waters. |
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and resulted in riot and bloodshed. The arrival of a vessel ' On his Majesty's service' in the Tyne was regarded with mingled feelings of aversion and fear by those who were liable to be called upon, and the press-gang was a fertile theme for local rhymsters from the earliest period of its operation down to living memory." |
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LIBERTY FOR THE SAILORS. |
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" Lasses, call your lads ashore, Lasses, call your lads ashore, Lasses, call your lads ashore. There's liberty for the sailors.
" Liberty and money free, Liberty and money free, Liberty and money free, There's liberty for the sailors.
" Let the lubbers lie aboard, Let the lubbers lie aboard, Let the lubbers lie aboard, Because they're nobbut tailors.
But, lasses, call your lads ashore, |
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