help - song about ships at greenwich

Subject: help - song about ships at greenwich
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:37 PM

trying to find lyrics about ships sailing from greenwich. Heard it sung by an all female group but can't remember the name of the group either. Any ideas?

Subject: RE: help - song about ships at greenwich
From: GUEST,is it this 'un?
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 04:41 PM

On Board a 98
When I was young and scarce eighteen,
I drove a roaring trade;
And many a sly trick I have played
On many a pretty maid.
My parents found that would not do,
I soon would spend their store,
So they resolv'd that I should go
On board a Man-of-War.

A bold pressgang surrounded me,
Their warrant they did show,
And swore that I should go to sea,
And face the daring foe.
So off they lugged me to the boat.
O how I cursed my fate,
'Twas then I found that I must float
On board a Ninety-Eight.

When first I put my foot on board,
How I began to stare,
Our Admiral he gave the word,
'There is no time to spare!'
They weighed their anchor, shook out sail,
And off they bore me straight,
To watch the foe in storm and gale,
On board a Ninety-Eight.

Now as time fled I bolder grew,
And hardened was to war;
I'd run aloft with my ship's crew,
And valued not a scar.
So well I did my duty do,
Till I got boatswain's mate,
And damme, soon got boatswain too
On board a Ninety-Eight.

So years rolled by, at Trafalgar
Brave Nelson fought and fell;
As they capsized that hardy tar
I caught a rap as well.
To Greenwich College I came back,
Because I saved my pate;
They only knocked a wing off Jack
On board a Ninety-Eight.

So now my cocoa I can take,
My pouch with 'bacca stored;
With my blue clothes and three-cocked hat
I'm happy as a lord.
I've done my duty, served my king,
And now I bless my fate,
But damme, I'm too old to sing,
I'm nearly Ninety-Eight.

Subject: RE: help - song about ships at greenwich
From: Skipper Jack
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 07:37 AM

A duo called Tundra (Doug & Sue Hudson) recorded an album back in 1981.

It is called "Songs From Greenwich" and festures among others - a song called "Admiral Benbow". While he was in lodgings in Greenwich, he was taken to court by his landlord and ordered to pay damages for persisting in his morning habit of firing a cannon at the garden and thus ruining the hedges.

Subject: RE: help - song about ships at greenwich
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 09:35 AM

Aha that could explain the monstrous local authority block of flats in Greenwich called Benbow House.Once seen never forgotten.