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Hang on a second, hang on a second on 14:56 - Feb 9 by Keno
reminded me of this
I thought 'Friggin' in the riggin'' was stretching it but your suggestion is definitely not a sea shanty.
So we shall go with this next:
As we sailed out one morning along the Spanish shore. Where the drums they did beat and the cannon they did roar. We spied aloft the Admiral come ploughing on the main And which caused us to hoist up our topsail again.
“Come come my lads get ready, come come my lads be true. To face this French Admiral that's all that we can do. If he should overtake us, all on the ocean wide. We will nearly draw up to him and give him a broadside.”
Now a broadside, a broadside, and at it we went For killing one another that was their full intent. The very second broadside our Admiral he got slain And a young damsel stepped up in his place to remain.
“Four quarters, four quarters!” This damsel replied, “We'll give you the best of quarters that ever we can afford. And we'll offer you the finest quarters that ever we can afford. You must fight, sink or swim my boys or else jump overboard.”
Now we fought there four hours, four hours severe We fought till there was not a man he could stand on board. We fought till not a man on board could fire off a gun And the blood from our quarterdecks like water did run.
And now we are gained a victory we'll take a glass of wine You drink luck to your true love and I'll drink luck to mine. But there's good luck to the damsel who's fought with us on the main To our good ship The Royal called Rainbow by name.
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