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30 May 00 - 04:23 PM (#235943) Subject: Lee Fore Brace From: radriano Well, Joe Offer, you asked for it and here it is. There were a few phrases I wasn't sure about but one of the member of Landlocked e-mailed me the original words. There is one phrase where I kept what I thought I heard rather than what was really there. In the original version the second line of the third verse read, a Dago fiddler's tune, and I liked the phrase, a good old fidder's tune, a lot better. Lee Fore Brace Words by C. Fox Smith; melody by A. Fitzsimmons There were ten men hauling on the lee fore brace In the rain and the driving hail And the mile-long greybeards charging by In a thundering Cape Horn gale That dark it was, you scarce could see Your hands before your face That cold it was, our fingers froze Stiff as they gripped the brace And Christ, said Dan, for a night in port For a good old fiddler's tune And just one whiff of the drinks again In a Calleo saloon There were ten men hauling on the lee fore brace When the big sea broke on board Like a stream in spate and a foaming flood Right fore and aft did pour And the ship she staggered and lay still So deep, so dead lay she Why you think she could not rise again From such a weight of sea There were ten men hauling on the lee fore brace Seven when she rose at last And the rest were lost to the pitch dark night To the sea and the ice-cold blast And one of them was Dago Pete One was Lars, the Dane And the third was a lad whose like on earth I shall not find again So I'll stand my wheel and I'll heave and haul And I'll reef and I'll furl with the rest For the winds and seas they go in the same When they've took and they've drowned the best And there ain't no sense to curse the Lord There ain't no sense to moan For a man must live with his life the same And keep his grief his own So I'll drink me drink and I'll sing me song And nobody'll know but me That a lump of me heart, it went down with Dan That night in the wild Horn sea From the CD Where Seagulls Dare, by the English shanty group Landlocked. I will post the ABC notation just as soon as I work it out. radriano |