Ralph Vaughan Williams - Ward, The Pirate - текст песни (слова)

Come all you gallant seamen bold,
 All you that march to drum,
 Let's go and look for Captain Ward,
 Far on the sea he roams;
 He is the biggest robber
 That ever you did hear,
 There's not been such a robber found
 For above this hundred year.
 
 A ship was sailing from the east
 And going to the west,
 Loaded with silks and satins
 And velvets of the best,
 But meeting there with Captain Ward,
 It proved a bad meeting;
 He robbèd them of all their wealth
 And bid them tell their king.
 
 O then the king provided a ship of noble fame,
 She's call'd the "Royal Rainbow,"
 If you would know her name;
 She was as well provided for
 As any ship could be,
 Full thirteen hundred men on board
 To bear her company.
 
 'Twas eight o' clock in the morning
 When they began to fight,
 And so they did continue there
 Till nine o' clock at night.
 "Fight on, fight on," says Captain Ward,
 "This sport well pleases me,
 For if you fight this month or more,
 Your master I will be."
 
 O then the gallant "Rainbow"
 She fired, she fired in vain,
 Till six and thirty of her men
 All on the deck were slain.
 "Go home, go home," says Captain Ward,
 "And tell your king from me,
 If he reigns king on all the land,
 Ward will reign king on sea!"