Farewell and adieu, to you Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu, to you ladies of Spain For we’ve received orders to sail for Old England But we hope, in a short time, to see you again We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas Until we strike soundings in the channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly, ‘tis thirty-five leagues We hove our ship to, with the wind from Sou'west boys We hove our ship to, deep soundings to take ‘Twas forty-five fathoms with a white sandy bottom So we squared our main yard and up channel did make We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas Until we strike soundings in the channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly, ‘tis thirty-five leagues The first land we sighted was called the Dodman Next Rame Head off Plymouth, Start, Portland and Wight Then we sailed by Beachy, by Fairlight and Dover And then we bore up for the South Foreland light We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas Until we strike soundings in the channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly, ‘tis thirty-five leagues Then the signal was made for the Grand Fleet to anchor And all in the Downs that night for to lie Let go your shank-painters Let go your cat stopper Haul up your clew garnets, let tacks and sheets fly We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas Until we strike soundings in the channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly, ‘tis thirty-five leagues Now let every man drink off his full bumper And let every man drink off his full glass We'll drink and be Jolly and drown melancholy And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas Until we strike soundings in the channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly, ‘tis thirty- five leagues
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