Motley Words

[Duo] Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we’re under or-ders to sail for old England
But we hope in a short time to see you again

We’ll rant and we’ll roar like true British sailors
We’ll rant and we’ll roar accross the salt sea
Until we strike soundings in the Channel of Old England
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues

[All Tunes] We hove our ship to with the wind t’ sou’west, boys
We hove our ship to, our soundings to see
So we rounded and sounded found forty five fathoms
Then we squared up our main yard up chann-el steered we.

(Chorus)

Now the first land we made it is known as the Dead-man,
Next Rams Head off Plymouth, Start Portland and Wight
We sailed up by Beach-y, by Fair-lee and Dunge-ness,
And then came a-breast of the South Fore-land Light

(Chorus)

Now let ev’ry man fill up a full bumper,
Now let every man fill up a full bowl,
We’ll drink and be jolly and drown melancholy,
And here’s a good health to all true-hearted souls.

(Chorus x 2)