The Seven Seas

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We've floundered off the Texel, Awash with sodden deals, We've slipped from Valparaiso With the Norther at our heels: We've ratched beyond the Crossets That tusk the Southern Po...

Now this is the Law of the Muscovite, that he proves with shot and steel, When ye come by his isles in the Smoky Sea ye must not take the seal, Where the gray sea goes nakedly b...

Well, ah fare you well; we can stay no more with you, my love-- Down, set down your liquor and your girl from off your knee; For the wind has come to say: "You must take me whil...

I left 'em all in couples akissing on the decks. I left the lovers loving and the parents signing checks. In endless English comfort by county-folk caressed, I left the old thre...

'Alt! The married kit 'as all to go before us! 'Course it's blocked the bloomin' gangway up again! Cheer, O cheer the 'Orse Guards watchin' tender o'er us, Keepin' us since eigh...

Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi, Gettin' down an' shovin' in the sun; An' you might 'ave called us dirty, an' you might ha' called us dry, An' you might 'ave '...