Admiral Benbow chords by Martin Simpson
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Verse 1
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We sailed from Virginia
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and thence to Fayhall
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Where we watered our shipping
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and then we weighed o 'er
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Full in view on the seas, boys,
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seven sails we did a spy
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And we mannered our capstan
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and weighed speedily
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And the first that we'd come on
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was a brigantine sloop
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And we asked if the others was
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as big as they looked
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Then turning to windward
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as near as we could lie
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We saw there were nine men
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of war cruising by
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So we formed a buzz squadron
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in a very nice line
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Full boldly we fought them
for full four hours' time
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Till the day being spent
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boys ignited coming on
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We left them alone
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until the very next morning
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And the very next morning
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the engagement proved hot
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Brave Admiral Benbow
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received a chain shot
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And when he was wounded,
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to his merry men he did say
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Take me up in your arms, boys,
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and carry me away
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And the guns they did rattle,
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and the bullets did fly
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Brave Admiral Benbow for
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help would not cry
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Take me down to the cockpit,
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let it ease for my smarts
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If my merry men see me,
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it'll sure break their hearts
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And the very next morning,
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at the break of the day
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They hoisted their top sails
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and soared bore away
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We board to Port Royal,
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where the people flock much,
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To see Admir al Benbow
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carried to Kingston Church.
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Come all ye young fellows,
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wherever you've been,
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Let us drink a good health
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to our King and our Queen,
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And an other good health
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to the girls that we know,
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And a certain remembrance
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of brave Admiral Ben -Hur
Admiral Benbow
Martin Simpson
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