Here's the tune for completeness. A quick check of Roud finds no entry for the first line. I'll try and have a more thorough look later. Mick
X: 1 T:Admiral Nelson M:4/4 L:1/4 B:The English Folksinger - Sam Richards & Trish Stubbs, 1979 K:Ddor N: Notes from The English Folksinger: N: Source unknown. THis vivid ballad of Trafalgar turned up in an old book N: in a library in South Devon. Unfortunately, attempts to re-locate it have N: been unsuccessful.A note in out papers, written when the song was copied, N: attributes it to one Dick Tremuan, a street ballad singer of Plymouth who N: claimed to write all the songs he peddled. However unknown source is no N: excuse for ignoring one of the best songs of the Napoleonic Wars that we N: have come across so far. G|A D (E/F/) G| (F/E/) D2 w:Draw nigh my friends_ and neigh_bours, A| d> e c B| A3 w:Good news to you I'll bring. A| d> e c B| A2 c w:The fame of Admi-ral Nel-son d| A> c E G| D3 |] w:From shore to shore to sing.
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