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T:The Bay Of Biscay O
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W:Loud roar'd the dreadful thunder The rain a deluge show'rs;
W:The clouds are rent asunder By lightning's vivid pow'rs.
W:The night both drear and dark.  Our poor devoted bark
W:Till next day there she lay In the Bay of Biscay O!
W:Till next day there she lay In the Bay of Biscay O! 
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W:Now dashed up on the billow Our op'ning timbers creak,
W:Each fears a watery pillow, None stop the dreadful leak.
W:To cling to slippery shrouds Each breathless seaman crowds 
W:As she lay till the day In the Bay of Biscay O!
W:As she lay till the day In the Bay of Biscay O!      
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W:Her yielding timbers sever, Her pitchy seams are rent;
W:When Heav'n, all bounteous ever, Its boundless mercy sent.
W:A sail in sight appears, We hail her with three cheers 
W:Now we sail with the gale From the Bay of Biscay O!
W:Now we sail with the gale From the Bay of Biscay  O!

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w: You - gen-tle-men - of Eng - land, who live at home - at ease ~ It is
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W:You gentlemen of England who live at home at ease.
W:it is little do you think,or know, the dangers of the seas;
W:When we receive our orders we are obliged to go,
W:Cross the main to proud Spain, let the wind blow high or low.
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W:On the second day of August fro, Spithead we set sail,
W:With Ramsay in our company, blessed with a pleasant gale;
W:We sailed along together to the Bay of Biscay O
W:Where dreadful storms came on and the wind began to blow.
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W:Then, Ramsay in our company, she could no longer stay.
W:It was by stress of weather, from us she bore away;
W:She put in to Gibraltar and she told the people so –
W:That she feared we were all lost in the Bay of Biscay O.
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W:But, as Heaven provided, it was not quite so bad.
W:Though first we lost our main mast, and with it went our flag;
W:And then we lost our mizzin [sic] mast , six of our guns also,
W:And of men we lost ten, in the Bay of Biscay O.
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W:The Captain on the quarterdeck, it killed him outright,
W:Gold rings upon his fingers were burst asunder quite;
W:Gold rings upon his fingers, it bursted them in two.
W:There he lay till next day, when we over-board him threw.
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W:But as yet we had not perceived this melancholy stroke,
W:For in the side of our good ship, there was a great hole broke;
W:Which caused our gun room with water for to flow
W:There we rolled and we tolled in the Bay of Biscay O.
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W:The storm, it being over, we rigged a jury mast
W:We put in to Gibraltar, where we came to at last;
W:We put in to Gibraltar, where we lay at the New Mole
W:And the people, they came flocking in, our state for to behold.
W:They said we were the saddest sight that ever they did know
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W:We ne’er repine, but drank wine, till we drownded all our woe;
W:We ne’er repine, but drank wine, till we drownded all our woe.
W:Here’s a long fare-you-well to the Bay of Biscay O.

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