Key: D
Introduction:
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I am a young mariner headed to war
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I'm thinkin' 'bout my family and what it was for
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There's water on the wood and the sails feel good
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And when I get to shore I hope that I can kill good
My father was a sailor named Captain Kennedy
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I saw him in Nassau in ninteen seventy one
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His strength was failin' but he still ran a run
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He worked 'til his fingers wore to the bone
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To buy that wooden schooner and sail on his own
He was known in the islands as hundred foot iron