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this song is by Roger Chartier
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Spanish Ladies
This is a Yankee version 
Rewritten by Roger Chartier  
Adapted from a British navy
Homecoming shanty used at the capstain 

 

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies

Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain

For we’ve received orders to sail to New Bedford

Nantucket to the Vinyard is just a few leagues

CHORUS
We’ll rant and we’ll roar like true Yankee sailors

We’ll rant and we’ll rave across the salt sea

Till we strike soundings in the harbor of New Bedford

1 Nantucket to home is just a few leagues

2 Great Point to home is just a few leagues

3 the Vinyard to home is just a few leagues

4 Woods Hole to home is just a few leagues

5 West Island to home is just a few leagues

We hove our ship to with the wind at the sou’west boys

We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear

In fifty five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom

We filled main tops’l up channel did steer CHORUS

The first land we made was a place called Nantucket

Martha’s Vinyard Woods Hole then down Buzzards Bay

We sailed then by Marion Mattapoisett and Fairhaven

Then bore straight away for New Bedford hooray…..CHORUS

Now the Captain called out for our grand ship to anchor

We clewed up our tops’ls stuck out tacks and sheets

We stood by our stoppers, we brailed in our spankers

And anchored ahead of the noblest of fleets…..CHORUS


Let every man here drink up his full bumper

Let every man here drink up his full bowl

And let us be jolly and drown melancholy

And drink a health to each jovial and true hearted soul…..CHORUS

Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com