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Correct Spanish Ladies Lyrics
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Celtic Underground
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Correct Spanish Ladies
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Farewell and adieu, to ye fair Spanish Ladies, Farewell and adieu, ye ladies of Spain; For we've received orders to sail for ol' England, But we hope that it's short-lived, to see you again. [Chorus}: We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors, We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea. Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England; From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues. We hove our ship to, with the wind at sou'west, boys We hove our ship to, for it takes soundings clear; At fifty-five fathoms, with a fine sandy bottom, We filled our main topsail up channel did steer. [Chorus] The the signal was made for the grand fleet to anchor, We put up our topsail and struck tacks and sheets; We stood by our stoppers and bridled and spankered, And anchored ahead of the noblest fleet. [Chorus] Let every man here drink up his full bumper, Let every man here drink up his full bow; And we will be jolly and drown melancholy, Drink a health to each jovial of each true-hearted Soul. [Chorus] Extra verses: The first land we sighted was called the Dodman, Next Rame Head off Plymouth, off Portsmouth the Wight; We sailed by Beachy, by Fairlight and Dover, And then we bore up for the South Foreland light. [Chorus] Then the signal was made for the grand fleet to anchor, And all in the Downs that night for to lie; Let go your shank painter, let go your cat stopper! Haul up your clewgarnets, let tacks and sheets fly!
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