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DRAKE'S DRUM (John Richards) He was born to the life of a captain And for England to dominate the sea He had sailed around the world for his homeland And had routed port and ship of the Spanish navy He had saved British shores from the Armada Then in 1596 he died at sea They comitted his body to the ocean That he'd given all his life to keeping free Cho: At the beating of the drum he will return, Will return At the beating of the drum he will return When our England faces war, beat the drum on Plymouth shore At the beating of the drum he will return As Captain Blake he led the fleet of the Commonwealth And Jamaica fell to the guns of his British fleet He was to die aboard his ship in Plymouth water Having sunk the Spanish fleet at Tenerife He as Nelson led the fleet against the Frenchmen And destroyed Napoleon's ships at Abukir Bay At the Battle of Trafalgar nelson wounded Died in victory on England's finest day At Scapa Flow 1918 the German High Fleet Was surrounded by the British Navy's guns Until surrender on the high seas was completed All the British heard the beating of the drum (c) John Richards @England @sailor @war filename[ DRAKDRM2 XX |
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