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The Men of the Robert Shaw Chorale
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Spanish Ladies
Farewell and adieu To you Spanish Ladies Farewell and adieu To you ladies of Spain For we've received orders For 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 Along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly Is thirty-five leagues
We hove our ship to With the wind from sou'west, boys We hove our ship to Our soundings for to see Then the signal was made For the grand fleet to anchor And all in the Downs That night for to meet
We'll rant and we'll roar Like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar Along the salt seas Until we strike soundings Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com In the Channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly Is thirty-five leagues
Now let every man Toss off a full bumper Now let every man Toss off a full bowl And we'll drink and be merry And drown melancholy Singing, here's a good health To all true-hearted souls
We'll rant and we'll roar Like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar Along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of Old England From Ushant to Scilly Is thirty-five leagues
Ushant - an island at the south-western end of the English Channel which marks the north-westernmost point of metropolitan France. Isles of Scilly - an archipelago off the south-western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. League - a rough measurement of about 3 miles, usually at sea Hove - past tense of heave - to move a ship into a certain position or in a certain direction. Hove to - to stop the headway of a ship, halt. Downs - the Downs is an area of sea in the Southern North Sea near the English Channel.
'Spanish Ladies' is the story of British navy men sailing north from Spain and along the English Channel. There is apparently a fog, as the crew are unable to determine their latitude by sighting. Instead, they console themselves with the sandy bottom they've sounded and the width of the entrance between the rocks of Ushant to the south and the Scillys to the north. This song was originally about English ships supplying Spain in their fight against 1700's revolutionary France.
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