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24 Aug 05 - 04:37 PM (#1548854) Subject: help - song about ships at greenwich From: GUEST 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? |
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24 Aug 05 - 04:41 PM (#1548860) Subject: RE: help - song about ships at greenwich From: GUEST,is it this 'un? 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. |
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25 Aug 05 - 07:37 AM (#1549267) Subject: RE: help - song about ships at greenwich From: Skipper Jack 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. |
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25 Aug 05 - 09:35 AM (#1549356) Subject: RE: help - song about ships at greenwich From: GUEST Aha that could explain the monstrous local authority block of flats in Greenwich called Benbow House.Once seen never forgotten. |