Key: D
Introduction:
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Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies
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Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
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For we've received orders for to sail for ol' England
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But we hope in a short time to see you again
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We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
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We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea
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Until we take soundings in the Channel of old England
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From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues
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We hove our ship to with the wind from the sou' west boys
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We hove our ship to, deep soundings to take
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'Twas forty-five fathoms, with a white sandy bottom
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So we squared off our main yard and up channel did make
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We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea
C G C Em
Until we take soundings in the Channel of old England
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From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues
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Now let every man drink off his full bumper
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And let every man drink off hiss full glass
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We'll drink and be jolly and drown melancholy
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And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea
C G C Em
Until we take soundings in the Channel of old England
F G Am Dm Em Am
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues
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The first land we sighted was called the Dodman
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Next Rame Head off Plymouth, Start, Portland then Wight
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We sailed on by Beachy, by Fairley and Dover
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And then we bore up for the South Foreland light
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We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea
C G C Em
Until we take soundings in the Channel of old England
F G Am Dm Em Am
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues
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Then the signal was made for the Grand Fleet to anchor
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And all in the Downs that night for to lie
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Let go your shank painter, let go your cat stopper!
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Haul up your clewgarnets, let tacks and sheets fly!
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea
C G C Em
Until we take soundings in the Channel of old England
F G Am Dm Em Am
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues
Am C Em
Now let every man drink off his full bumper
Am C G
And let every man drink off his full glass
Am G C Em
We'll drink and be jolly and drown melancholy
F Em Am Em Am
And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
Am C Em
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea
C G C Em
Until we take soundings in the Channel of old England
F G Am Dm Em Am
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues