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Joe Offer DTStudy:Sir Francis Drake / Eighty-Eight (13) ADD Version: Sir Francis Drake / Eighty-Eight 30 Oct 17


Google has a second version, on Page 20 of The Early Naval Battles of England by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps,

published in 1841 by the Percy Society.




SIR FRANCIS DRAKE: OR, EIGHTY-EIGHT.
THE following is another version of the foregoing ballad, and is
taken from ?Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy,? vol.
ii. p. 37. The tune is also given by D'Urfey. Another copy is
given in the ? Westminster Drollery,? l2mo. Lond. 167i.
To the tune of Eighty-eight.

SOME years of late, in Eighty eight,
As I do well remember-a,
It was, some say, on the ninth of May,
And some say in September-a.

The Spanish train launch'd forth a-main,
With many a fine bravado,
Whereas they thought, but it prov'd nought,
The Invincible Armado.

There was a little man that dwelt in Spain,
That shot well in a gun-a,
Don Pedro hight, as black a wight,
As the Knight of the Sun-a.

King Philip made him Admiral,
And bad him not to stay-a,
But to destroy both man and boy,
And so to come away-a.

The Queen was then at Tilbury,
What could we more desire-a?
Sir Francis Drake, for her sweet sake,
Did set 'em all on fire-a.

Away they ran by sea and land,
So that one man slew three score-a,
And had not they all run away,
O my soul, we had killed more-a.

Then let them neither brag nor boast,
For if they come again-a,
Let them take heed they do not speed,
As they did they know when-a.

Recording by The York Waits on Saydisc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqq23GMzZe4

Similar recording by The City Waites on Naxos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CttJ6pMLu0c


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