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DRAKE'S DRUM
(John Richards)

He was born to the life of a captain
And for England to dominate the sea.
He had sailed around the world for his homeland
And had routed port and ship of the Spanish navy.
He had saved British shores from the Armada,
Then in 1596 he died at sea.
They committed his body to the ocean
That he'd given all his life to keeping free.

CHORUS: At the beating of the drum he will return, will return.
At the beating of the drum he will return.
When our England faces war, beat the drum on Plymouth shore.
At the beating of the drum he will return.

As Captain Blake he led the fleet of the Commonwealth
And Jamaica fell to the guns of his British fleet.
He was to die aboard his ship in Plymouth water,
Having sunk the Spanish fleet at Tenerife.
He as Nelson led the fleet against the Frenchmen
And destroyed Napoleon's ships at Abukir Bay.
At the Battle of Trafalgar, Nelson wounded
Died in victory on England's finest day.

At Scapa Flow 1918, the German High Fleet
Was surrounded by the British Navy's guns.
Until surrender on the high seas was completed,
All the British heard the beating of the drum.