A recording of Nelson's Death
A. L. Lloyd, in The Valiant Sailor, Songs & Ballads of Nelson's Navy, Topic 12TS232, 1974, after Roy Palmer's book The Valiant Sailor, 1973

All Britons long expected good news from our fleet
Commanded by Lord Nelson the French for to meet
Till at length the news came over, through the country was spread
That the French were defeated but Nelson was dead

He was a bold commander, as sail the ocean wide
He made the French to tremble with his terrible broadside
One hundred fights he'd been in, and never once was beat
Though he'd one arm and one eye, no power could him defeat

This bold undaunted hero on the quarter deck he stood
You would admire his actions with the decks a-wash with blood
But aloft all in the rigging a Frenchman fired a ball
And that was the cause of our bold Lord Nelson's fall

Then up steps the doctor in a hurry he did say:
Me Lord indeed I'm sorry to see you bleed this way -
No matter and no matter, whatever about me
It's to me gallant seamen your first duty should be

He called unto his captain – How does the battle go?
I hear our great guns rattle, oh death is near I know -
Oh, it's eighteen we have captured and our men they are on board
And we'll blow the French from the ocean, me Lord

Come all you bold seamen, let the bottle go round
For Nelson was loyal and true to the Crown
Here's God bless all seamen that speak for his good
And God bless our fleet and the brave Lord Collingwood

But mourn, England, mourn, oh mourn and complain
For the loss of Lord Nelson that died on the main