After 50 years' search here is the song ....

http://www.mediafire.com/file/w9klhwqqkmsmf0u/The_Ballad_of_The_Gypsy_Moth.mp3

The Ballad of the Gypsy Moth
( Ken Campbell of The Pennine Folk)

In '66 I'll tell you Sir,
A man called Francis Chichester
Sailed out one day from a Devon cove,
To circumnavigate the globe.

Ch.: Hey ho, roll and go,
Around the Horn in the months of snow,
How many times can a man defy
The raging sea and the rolling sky?

Away from the cheers of a following crowd
Comes Gypsy Moth like a flying cloud
Around Cape Hope with a lazy motion
Straight for the heart of the Southern Ocean

Ch.:

The steering smashed and the ???
The ??? batteries are running low
They'll never make it straight they said
Here she comes around Sydney Head

Ch.:

???
With half a ton of lead in her keel
And out where the roaring 40's blow
Where the ice runs thick and big whales go

Ch.:

Around Cape Horn where the mermaid knows
Straight for the locker of Davey Jones
Where a million tons of ocean hurled
You swear you're bound for another world

Ch.:

Its off to the Gulf Stream warm and mild
With half the nation going wild
Gypsy Moth comes home from sea
So make her fast to the Greenwich Quay

Ch.:

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But who knows the missing words please?

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