Put him in a lifeboat And said goodbye Goodbye to Captain Bligh A gypsy curse, not gentle verse By all reports no gentleman he Spitting, "Fletcher Fletcher I bet you etch your name in infamy When you touch land you'll be tried and hung May your men breathe their last before me"
Chorus: Banned from the ports Damned in the courts No more throwing dice on the wharf There are those Those are we Slaves to the sea A cruel mistress she Heave away you rolling kings Show me your mercy Haul away you howling winds Fill the sails and sing In the wake of The Bounty
When they saw the Pandora Some swam out to her Saying The Bounty left us marooned Taken by boat by the ship-wrecked coast To the new out-post of the Crown When they hit the rocks, more lives were lost Poor souls locked below deck Now it's swinging time From Norfolk pine For the mutiny nine
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When the storm had cleared She had disappeared And for twenty years not a word Then a man named John Adams Said "I'm the last of them and I saw The Bounty burn" It was burnt, cinders burnt from the bow to the stern That night there was a new sun We drowned in rum Took to the gun And when bullets there were none Sticks and stones
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Heave away you rolling kings Show me your mercy Haul away you howling winds Fill the sails and sing In the wake of The Bounty