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T:The Ship in Distress
B:Oxford Book of Sea Songs, ISBN 0-19-282155-5
Z:George Butterworth, 1907
F:http://www.folkinfo.org/songs
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w:You sea-men bold_ that plough the o-cean, What dan-gers lands-men do 
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w:ne-ver know The suns gangs down over old Eng-lands nat-ion; No tongue_ can tell what 
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w:you go through. Through bit-ter storms in the height of bat-_tle, Now 
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w:mark you well_ what I do say Where thund-' ring can-nons loud-ly
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w:rat-tle There's no back door_ to run a-way