Lyr Add: Albertina (pump shanty)

25 Jun 98 - 11:05 PM (#31426)
Subject: Lyr Add: ALBERTINA (pump shanty)
From:

I'm on a roll (night before a festival). This one's also from George Herbert (see Good Old Brig).

ALBERTINA (pump shanty)

They are building a ship in the haven
Albertina, they will call her when she's done

CHORUS: Pump away
Albertina, she will serve us, Albertina will preserve us,
Albertina, they will call her when she's done,
Pump away

They say that she lays waiting in the harbor
To take us all around the horn

Ch: Pump away
Albertina, she will serve us Albertina, will preserve us
To take us all around the horn

They say that she lays waiting at anchor
To take us o'er the bounding main

Ch: 3rd line repeats - To take us o'er the bounding main

They say that she is ready in the harbor
She's loaded down with golden ale & wine
Ch:
They say that there's a sailor's grave a waiting
Beneath the ocean deep & blue

Another one that I believe is from the Northern Europe-Baltic-Scandinavian trades, where the sail-cargo industry was still going strong up to the start of WWII. I know the Albertina is already in the DT, but this version's different & English, rather than a translation. Barry

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29 May 23 - 12:56 PM (#4173383)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Albertina (pump shanty)
From: GUEST,Alan in Hastings UK

25 years on and ~I've just found this. :)

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