happy? – Feb 15 ('Bold Princes Royal')

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happy? – Feb 15 ('Bold Princes Royal')

15 Feb 06 - 08:50 AM (#1669258)
Subject: happy? – Feb 15 ('Bold Princes Royal')
From: Abby Sale

         On the 15th of February
          We sailed from the land,
          In the Bold Princes Royal
          Bound for Newfoundland.
  
                  Sam Larner on Now is the Time for Fishing, Folkways

15 Feb 06 - 09:18 AM (#1669282)
Subject: RE: happy? – Feb 15 ('Bold Princes Royal')
From: Charley Noble

And the song has a happy ending, except for the frustrated pirates who failed to earn their plunder and were forced to pawn their golden legs at the nearest port for bread and a little flat wine.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble