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Thread #141074 Message #3842551
Posted By: GUEST
02-Mar-17 - 08:12 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Ballad of Sir Francis Chichester/Gipsy Moth
Subject: RE: ADD: Ballad of Sir Francis Chichester/Gipsy Moth
Thanks to the help from Gavin Atkin of http://intheboatshed.net here's the final version ...
The Ballad of the Gypsy Moth
( Ken Campbell of The Pennine Folk)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/w9klhwqqkmsmf0u/The_Ballad_of_The_Gypsy_Moth.mp3
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 progress slow
The RT batteries are running low
They'll never make it straight they said
Here she comes around Sydney Head
Ch.:
A quick refit and a welcome meal
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 moans
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.:
CJB