Thanks to Roberto for sending me the sound file. Here's what I hear:


BLOW THE MAN DOWN
As sung by Phil Beer

1. As I was a-walking down Killigrew Street,
    Way, hey, blow the man down.
A saucy young bobby I chanced for to meet.
    Give me some time to blow the man down.

CHORUS: Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down.
    Way, hey, blow the man down.
Blow him away, boys, to Liverpool town.
    Give me some time to blow the man down.

2. Says he: "You're a smuggler and that I can see,
So off to the Bodmin you go, Jack, with me.

3. "Your lugger is lying up there by the point.
You'll find I will soon put your nose out of joint."

4. Says I: "You young loony, you think 'tis a lark,
For there is my clipper, the Mason C. Sark."

5. They give me three months in the clink of the town
For scruffing their bobby and blowing him down.


[There is a Killegrew Street in Falmouth, Cornwall. Bodmin, Cornwall, is the former location of an Assize Court and the Bodmin Gaol. A lugger is a small sailboat such as a smuggler might use. The sailor protests that he really belongs to a clipper, a much bigger ship.

["Mason C. Sark" is pure conjecture on my part; I have no idea what he is really saying, but I'm guessing it's the name of his ship, so I tried to invent something plausible.]