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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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He was Captain
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of the Nightingale
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Twenty-one days days from Clyde in coal
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He could smell the flowers of
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When he died on the North Rock Shore
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Just five short hours from Bermuda,
Verse 2
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There came a cry "Oh,
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there be breakers ahead!"
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No sooner had the Captain brought her round,
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came a rending crash below
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Hard on her beam ends, groaning,
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And over side her mainmast goes
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are we all for drowning?"came the cry from all the crew
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"The boats be smashed! How
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then are we all to be saved?
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"Oh, are ye brave and hardy collier-men
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or or are ye blind and cannot see?
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The Captain's gig still lies
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It shall carry all o'
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we."
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Verse 4
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But when the crew was all as sembled
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and the gig prepared for sea,
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Twas seen there were but eighteen
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But cries the Captain "Now do not delay,
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nor do ye spare a thought for me.
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My duty is to save ye all now,
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See ye return as quick as can
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Interlude 1
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Verse 5
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in Bermuda.
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And there be laughter,
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ease and drink for every man,
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But there is no joy for me;
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For when we reached the wretched
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Nightingale what an awful sight was plain
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Smiling Smiling bravely be neath the
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sea.
Outro 1
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