Captain Ward

Come all ye jolly mariners That love to tak' a dram I'll tell ye o' a robber That o'er the seas did come. He wrote a letter to his king The eleventh o' July, To see if he would accept o' him For his jovial company. "Ho no, ho no," says the king, "Such things they cannot be, They tell me ye are a robber, A robber on the sea." He has built a bonnie ship, An' sent her to the sea, With four and twenty mariners To guard his bonnie ship wi'. They sailed up an' they sailed down, Sea stately, blythe, an' free, Till they spied the king's high Reindeer A leviathan on the sea. They fought from one in the morning Till it was six at night, Until the king's high Reindeer Was forced to take her flight. "Gang him, gang him, ye tinkers. Tell ye your king fear me Though he's the king on dry land, And I will be king upon the sea."