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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Music of the Waters. 69 |
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BRITONS, STRIKE HOME.
" Our ship carried over nine hundred men,
And out of nine hundred, five hundred were slain ;
For we range the wild seas,
Where the wind blows so strong,
While our rakish young heroes cry—
' Britons, strike home, my boys ! Britons, strike home.'" |
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The other songs attributed to sailors are " When the Stormy Winds do blow," already given ; "You Gentlemen of England," sung to the tune of "Cease, Rude Boreas" (Early Naval Ballads), sometimes called " Come |
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