The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #13443   Message #110653
Posted By: Murray on Saltspring
02-Sep-99 - 02:36 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Heart of Oak
Subject: RE: Heart of Oak
There are 5 (five) stanzas in William Chappell's "Popular Music of the Olden Time", p. 715 or so, the first = #1 in the DT; where Burl Ives got the 2nd I know not--it sounds somewhat American to me (i.e. sung by a descendant). The others in Chappell are:

We ne'er see our foes but we wish them to stay;
They never see us but they wish us away:
If they run, why, we follow, and run them ashore,
For, if they won't fight us, we cannot do more.
[Cho.]

They swear they'll invade us, these terrible foes;
They frighten our women, our children and beaus;
But, should their flat bottoms in darkness get o'er,
Still Britons they'll find to receive them on shore.
[Cho.]

We'll still make them fear, and we'll still make them flee,
And drum 'em on shore, as we've drubb'd 'em at sea:
Then cheer up, my lads, with one heart let us sing,
Our soldiers, our sailors, our statesmen, our king.
[Cho.]

We'll still make 'em run, and we'll still make 'em sweat,
In spite of the devil, and Brussels Gazette:
Then cheer up, my lads, with one heart let us sing,
Our soldiers, our sailors, our statesmen and king.
[Cho.]
^^