In the book,- Piracy, Slavery and Redemption, there are two Ballads, the first , The Algerian Slave’s releasement or The Unchangeable Boatswain, this Ballad is from A Century of Ballads, edited by John Ashton [London, Elliot Stock 1887] pages 221-224, no date given for the Ballad, but the Publisher who issued the Ballad a J Deacon was active circa 1684-95. to the tune of "Awake, Oh my Cloris,"
[And three weeks holiday in Baghdad to the first person who knows the tune].

The Ballad is strung out in 12 verses mostly of the poor man’s longing for his beloved Betty, here are three verses which give the gist of the man’s plight,

Sometime in the Galleys
I am forced to go
Though amongst all my fellows,
Like a Slave I do row,
And when I am spent
With this labour and pain
The thought of my love
Doth revive me again.

But a renegado
To make me thy strive
I’ll never consent to it
Whilst I am alive
But will a courageous
True Protestant be
I’ll be true to my faith
And be constant to thee.

And now, through providence,
I am returned
By shipwrack I ‘scaped
For our ship it was burned.
No torment like mine was
When I was a slave,
For the want of my Betty
Was worse than the grave.

Peggy Gordon eat yer heart out.

And the second Ballad no Title given, the information on the footnote reads, From C. H. Firth, Naval Songs and Ballads [London] Navy Records Society, 1908] Pages 31-33. The text is taken from a manuscript in the Bodleian Lbrary, [MS Rawlinson Poet, Clii, F 36]. Originally printed in 1624. Ard Mhacha.