Subject: Lyr Add: Sailor's Sheet Anchor (more grog)
From:
Charley Noble
Date: 22 Feb 03 - 11:32 AM
Here's another fine grog drinking song by Charles Dibdin from DIBDIN'S SEA SONGS:
SAILOR'S SHEET ANCHOR, THE
(By Charles Dibdin
In Dibdin's Sea Songs, 1854 Edition, pp. 11-12)
Chorus:
Smiling grog is the sailor's best hope, his sheet anchor,
His compass, his cable, his log,
That gives him a heart which life's care cannot canker;
Though dangers around him
Unite to confound him,
He braves them, and tips off his grog,
'Tis grog, only grog,
Is his rudder, his compass, his cable, his log,
The sailor's sheet anchor is grog!
What though he be a friend in trust
His prize-money convey,
Who, to his bond of faith unjust,
Cheats him, and runs away;
What's to be done? He vents a curse
'Gainst all false hearts ashore;
Of the remainder clears his purse,
And then to sea for more. (CHO)
What though his girl, who often swore,
To know no other charms,
He finds when he returns ashore,
Clasp'd in his rival's arms:
What's to be done? He vents a curse!
And seeks a kinder she;
Dances, gets groggy, clears his purse,
And goes again to sea. (CHO)
To crosses borne, still trusting there
The waves less faithful than the fair;
There into toils to rush again,
And stormy perils brave – what then? (CHO)
Cheerily,
Charley Noble
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