14 Mar 06 - 09:01 AM (#1693072)
Subject: happy? - Mar 14 (Byng shot / Whale lost)
From: Abby Sale
3/14/1757: Admiral John Byng was executed by firing squad for losing Minorca to the French.
By conduct contrary a captain we lost,
And here lies the reason, he run from his post,
For may we not say it, without flounce [decoration] or fear,
He run from his post, when he run in too near.
"An Address from the Regions Below to A-----l B—-g,"
in A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer
ALSO: "Admiral Byng," Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Roy Palmer
ALSO:
In eighteen hundred and forty-six
On March the fourteenth day,
I bought myself a calendar
For we were bound away.
We sailed from tacky guano
And followed the seabird's flight,
For we were hunting whales, me boys,
At least we thought we might.
"The Losing of the Whale" by & © D. Nudds and C. Sugden. From the Kipper Family The Ever Decreasing Circle & DigTrad filename[ LOSEWHAL
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