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w:You sea-men bold_ that plough the o-cean, What dan-gers lands-men do 
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w:ne-ver know The suns gangs down over old Eng-lands nat-ion; No tongue_ can tell what 
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w:you go through. Through bit-ter storms in the height of bat-_tle, Now 
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w:mark you well_ what I do say Where thund-' ring can-nons loud-ly
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w:rat-tle There's no back door_ to run a-way  
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W:You seamen bold who plough the ocean
W:See dangers landsmen never know.
W:'Tis not for honour or promotion;
W:No tongue can tell what they undergo.
W:In the blusterous wind and the great dark water
W:Our ship went drifting on the sea,
W:Her rigging gone, and her rudder broken,
W:Which brought us to extremity.
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W:For fourteen days, heartsore and hungry,
W:Seeing but wild water and bitter sky,
W:Poor fellows all stood in a totter,
W:A-casting lots as to who should die.
W:Their lot it fell on Robert Jackson,
W:Whose family was so great.
W:"I'm free to die, but oh, me comrades,
W:Let me keep look-out till the break of day."
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W:A full dressed ship like the sun a-glittering
W:Came bearing down to their relief.
W:As soon as this glad news was shouted,
W:It banished all their care and grief.
W:Our ship brought to, no longer drifting,
W:Safe in Saint Vincent, Cap Verde, she lay.
W:You seamen all, who hear my story,
W:Pray you'll ne'er suffer the like again.

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Country of origin: England

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