WA2K Radio is now on the air

I know'd it once, I did. but I forgot it.

My word, listeners, I bought him books and I've bought him books, and still he don't larn nuthin:

The Erie Canal
I've got a mule, her name is Sal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
She's a good ol' worker and a good ol' pal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
We've hauled some barges in our day,
Filled with lumber, coal, and hay,
And we know ev'ry inch of the way,
From Albany to Buffalo.

Chorus:
Low bridge, ev'rybody down!
Low bridge, for we're comin' to a town!
And you'll always know your neighbor,
You'll always know your pal,
if you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal.

We better get on our way, old pal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
'Cause you bet your life I'd never part with Sal,
Fifteen years on the Erie Canal.
Get up there mule, here comes a lock,
We'll make Rome 'bout six o'clock,
One more trip and back we'll go,
Right back home to Buffalo.

Well, Diane, that is quite appropriate as it goes well with your penis thread.

Artist/Band: Griffith Nanci
Lyrics for Song: Rise To The Occasion
Lyrics for Album: Hearts in Mind
(with Mac MacAnnaly)

I'll never fall in love again
It's such a contradiction
To lose all control and common sense
And even intuition

You came along, with a strange new song
And the sweetest innovation
And you said, "One should never fall in love
But rise to the occasion"

To have loved and lost, I know the cost
I fell and almost drowned
If not for you, I'd have missed this view
From higher ground

Now we can touch the sky above
At the Angel's invitation
And we don't even have to fall in love
Just rise to the occasion

Love should be pure and free
A smiling inspiration
And one should never fall in love
But rise to the occasion.

Well, I had to make it fit, and it's not nunsense.

anyone mind another frank sinatra tune ?
it's from a site called :

What Women Want Soundtrack Lyrics
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is that funny or what ? (i do enjoy the lyrics)
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Artist: Frank Sinatra Lyrics
Song: I've Got You Under My Skin Lyrics

I've got you under my skin.
I've got you deep in the heart of me.
So deep in my heart that you're really a part of me.
I've got you under my skin.
I'd tried so not to give in.
I said to myself: this affair never will go so well.
But why should I try to resist when, baby, I know so well
I've got you under my skin?

I'd sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin' you near
In spite of a warnin' voice that comes in the night
And repeats, repeats in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Use your mentality, wake up to reality.
But each time that I do just the thought of you
Makes me stop before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.

[Musical interlude]

I would sacrifice anything come what might
For the sake of havin' you near
In spite of the warning voice that comes in the night
And repeats - how it yells in my ear:
Don't you know, little fool, you never can win?
Why not use your mentality - step up, wake up to reality?
But each time I do just the thought of you
Makes me stop just before I begin
'Cause I've got you under my skin.
Yes, I've got you under my skin.

No one minds at all, hamburger. You German Canadians know good stuff when you hear it.

Thanks for playing Francis Albert.

Naw, not today. Maybe another time.

I wish I could think of something to contribute here. This is by far the best thread on the board.

Yes, of course, this is where THE DYS hangs. (when THe Dys and lettybetty aren't at the bowling alley)

So, are we a clique of 2 yet?

Isn't dys modest, folks? Now you see why he hangs out with Diane. <smile>

Actually, Reyn, it's not a clique at all. It's an attempt to get everyone, everywhere to come on our little radio and express themselves.

my middle name is REA, not MODEST. For the impaired (yes you rain) that's pronounced RAY.

Wedding Song

I love you more than ever, more than time and more than love,
I love you more than money and more than the stars above,
Love you more than madness, more than waves upon the sea,
Love you more than life itself, you mean that much to me.

Ever since you walked right in, the circle's been complete,
I've said goodbye to haunted rooms and faces in the street,
To the courtyard of the jester which is hidden from the sun,
I love you more than ever and I haven't yet begun.

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live,
When I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give,
Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from the hole,
Quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

You gave me babies one, two, three, what is more, you saved my life,
Eye for eye and tooth for tooth, your love cuts like a knife,
My thoughts of you don't ever rest, they'd kill me if I lie,
I'd sacrifice the world for you and watch my senses die.

The tune that is yours and mine to play upon this earth,
We'll play it out the best we know, whatever it is worth,
What's lost is lost, we can't regain what went down in the flood,
But happiness to me is you and I love you more than blood.

It's never been my duty to remake the world at large,
Nor is it my intention to sound a battle charge,
'Cause I love you more than all of that with a love that doesn't bend,
And if there is eternity I'd love you there again.

Oh, can't you see that you were born to stand by my side
And I was born to be with you, you were born to be my bride,
You're the other half of what I am, you're the missing piece
And I love you more than ever with that love that doesn't cease.

You turn the tide on me each day and teach my eyes to see,
Just bein' next to you is a natural thing for me
And I could never let you go, no matter what goes on,
'Cause I love you more than ever now that the past is gone.


B Dylan

Connected
Stereo MC's

Ah ah
Something ain't right
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself connected
I ain't gonna go blind
For the light which is reflected
I see thru you
I see thru you
I see thru you
I see thru you
Ya dirty tricks
Ya make me sick
I see thru you
I see thru you
I'm gonna do it again
I'm gonna do it again
Ah ah
I'm gonna do it again
Gotta do right
'Cause something ain't right
Gotta do right
Come on
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Ah ah
Ain't gonna go blind
I see thru you
I see thru you
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself
I'm gonna get myself connected
I ain't gonna go blind
For the light that is reflected
Hear me out
Can ya hear me out
Can ya hear me out
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
Do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
I wanna do it again
Ya terrified
Ain't gonna go blind
Ain't gonna go blind
Here we go
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Hear me out
Stumble you might fall
Interstate 5
Stayin' alive
Won't someone try
Open up your eyes
You must be blind
If you can't see
The gaping hole
Called reality
Wanna do it again
I gonna gonna do it again
I wanna do it again
Come on
I'm gonna do it again
Hear me out
Terrified
Something ain't right
Here we go
If you make sure you're connected
The writing's on the wall
But if your mind's neglected
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall
Stumble you might fall

here is a newfoundland sailor's song that goes by the name of "spanish ladies".
great lyrics, i think. hbg
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SPANISH LADIES
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My name it is Robert, they call me Bob Pittman;
I sail in the Ino with Skipper Tim Brown.
l'm bound to have Dolly or Biddy or Molly
As soon as l'm able to plank the cash down.

Chorus:
We'll rant and we'll roar like true Newfoundlanders,
We'Il rant and we'll roar on deck and below
Until we see bottom inside the two sunkers,
When straight through the Channel to Toslow we'll go.

l'm a son of a sea-cook, and a cook in a trader;
I can dance, I can sing, I can reef the main-boom;
I can handle a jigger, and cuts a big figure
Whenever I gets in a boat's standing room.
Chorus:

If the voyage is good, then this fall I will do it;
I wants two pound ten for a ring and the priest,
A couple o' dollars for clean shirt and collars,
And a handful o' coppers to make up a feast.
Chorus:

There's plump little Polly, her name is Goldsworthy,
There's John Coady's Kitty, and Mary Tibbo;
There's Clara from Bruley, and young Martha Foley,
But the nicest of all is my girl in Toslow.
Chorus:

Farewell and adieu to ye fair ones of VaIen,
Farewell and adieu to ye girls in the Cove;
I'm bound to the westward, to the wall with the hole in,
I'II take her from Toslow the wild world to rove.
Chorus:

Farewell and adieu to ye girls of St. Kyran's,
Of Paradise and Presque, Big and Little Bona,
l'm bound unto Toslow to marry sweet Biddy,
And if I don't do so, I'm afraid of her da.
Chorus:

I've bought me a house from Katherine Davis,
A twenty-pound bed from Jimmy MeGrath;
I'll get me a settle, a pot and a kettle;
Then I'll be ready for Biddy - hurrah!
Chorus:

O, I brought in the Ino this spring from the city,
Some rings and gold brooches for the girls in the Bay;
I bought me a case-pipe - they call it a meerschaum -
It melted like butter upon a hot day.
Chorus:

I went to a dance one night at Fox Harbour,
There were plenty of girls, so nice as you'd wish;
There was one pretty maiden a-chawin' of frankgum
Just like a young kitten a-gnawing fresh fish.
Chorus:

Then here is a heaIth to the girls of Fox Harbour,
Of Oderin and Presque, Crabbes Hole and Bruley.
Now let ye be jolly, don't be melancholy,
I can't marry all, or in chokey I'd be.
Chorus:

Well, my dear friends from all over, Letty is quite tired, so I must go to bed, now.

My Goodnight song:

être libre et partir comme un oiseau volage
sans connaître jamais ni son nom ni son age
être libre et partir, ignorer le retour
et raconter au vent son cœur et son amour

être libre et sentir une nouvelle vie
battre son aile au vent sans frayeur, sans envie
être libre et voler vers un pays lointain
et fixer pour toujours un éternel matin

être libre en son cœur sans crainte qu'on le brise
exprimer un désir pour qu'il se réalise
comme le bel oiseau, tendre son aile et fuir*
être libre à jamais et ne jamais mourir


English Translation:

to be free and to take flight like a bird on the wing
without ever knowing your own name or age
to be free and take flight, with no thought of returning
and to tell the wind the secrets of your heart and love

to be free and feel a new life
beating your wings on the wind without fear or longing
to be free and fly toward a far-away country
your gaze fixed forever on an eternal morning

to be free in your heart, without fear of getting it broken
to merely express a wish in order to have it come true
like the beautiful bird, to stretch out your wings and take flight*
to be free forever, and never to die.

From LettyBettyMaryCustisLee with love.

It's a running joke between Dys and myself that carried onto your thread. It's got nothing to do with your excellent show. :wink:

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Reyn, I saw the photo of your two man clique. It just drips with testosterone---and wonderful silliness. What a pair!

I simply adore her...

Angela Lansbury
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Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born October 16, 1925) is an English actress, the granddaughter of Labour politician George Lansbury. She was born in London, the daughter of a Belfast-born actress, Moyna MacGill. She moved to the United States at the beginning of World War II and became a naturalised citizen in 1951.


Angela Lansbury on the cover of a book based on her character in the TV series, Murder, She Wrote.As a struggling young actress in Los Angeles, Lansbury worked at the Bullocks Wilshire department store. She made her Academy Award nominated film debut in 1944, in the Charles Boyer/Ingrid Bergman film Gaslight, followed by another Oscar nomination for the Oscar Wilde film The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and has since enjoyed a long and varied career, mainly as a film actress, appearing in everything from Samson and Delilah (1949) to Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).

Lansbury's performance in The Manchurian Candidate (1962) as the overbearing mother of a brainwashed assassin, won much praise and won her a third Oscar nomination. In the film, Lansbury's son was played by Laurence Harvey, who was only three years younger than she. Lansbury has been quoted in an interview with CNN's Larry King as saying that this was her favorite of her many film roles.

She played Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd (1980). She then turned to character voice work in animated films like The Last Unicorn (1982), winning a great deal of praise for her affectionate turn as the singing teapot Mrs. Potts in the Disney hit Beauty and the Beast (1991). She also did character work as the Dowager Empress in the less well-received animated film Anastasia in 1997.

On Broadway, Lansbury received good reviews from her very first musical outing, the short-lived 1964 Stephen Sondheim musical Anyone Can Whistle. Starting in 1966, her long-running portrayal as Jerry Herman's Mame, opposite Bea Arthur as Vera, earned Lansbury her first Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical. Subsequent Tony awards were earned for Dear World (1969) and the first Broadway revival of Gypsy (1974). She is a two-time winner of the Sarah Siddons Award (1975 & 1980) for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre. Her English music-hall turn as meat-pie entrepreneuse Mrs. Lovett in Sondheim's ballad opera Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street earned her yet another Tony Award in 1979. She has received a Tony nomination for every lead role she has essayed on Broadway, and won each time, unlike her unlucky record at the Oscars.

As Jessica Fletcher in the long-running television series, Murder, She Wrote (1984 -1996), she found her biggest success and a worldwide following. It was to be one of the longest running prime time detective drama series in US TV history and made her one of the highest paid actresses in the world and a record as the most nominated lead actress without a win in the prime time Emmy awards (with 12 nominations).

In the early 1990s Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom awarded Angela Lansbury the CBE. She was named a Disney Legend in 1995. She received a Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997, and Kennedy Center Honors in 2000.

Lansbury was briefly married from 1945-46 to American actor Richard Cromwell when she was 19 and Cromwell was 35. In 1948, Lansbury remarried, to Irish-born actor and businessman Peter Shaw, who had been a former boyfriend of the much-older actress, Joan Crawford. Shaw was instrumental in guiding and managing Ms. Lansbury's career. Until Shaw's death in 2003, Lansbury enjoyed one of the longest and most prolific of show-business marriages.

Lansbury is the mother of two, stepmother of one, and a proud grandmother several times over. Her son, Antony, was producer/director of Murder She Wrote, and is today a television executive. Lansbury's daughter, Deirdre Angela Shaw Battarrais, who beat a serious drug addiction with her devoted mother's help (Lansbury moved to rural Ireland from California to escape the scourge of drugs) and is today, along with her Italian-born husband Enzo, the co-manager of a popular cafe, Ristorante Positano, in West Los Angeles, California. However, her devotion to her daughter may be put into question by the fact that in the '60s she gave her daughter written permission to travel with the Manson Family.

Interestingly, Lansbury was related by her half-sister Isolde's marriage to the late British actor, Sir Peter Ustinov; the two in-laws appeared together professionally just once in 1978's Death on the Nile. Lansbury is today related -- by the marriage of her nephew David Lansbury -- to the American actress Ally Sheedy. A footnote is that one of Ms. Lansbury's two twin brothers, Edgar Lansbury, was the producer of Godspell, the smash-hit broadway musical, in the 1970s.

Today, Lansbury, a longtime resident of Brentwood, California takes time to support various philanthropic groups. Lansbury was the Guest of Honor at the 14th annual Gala and Fundraiser on April 16, 2005 for Women in Recovery, Inc., a Venice, California-based non-profit organization offering a live-in, 12-Step program of rehabilitation for women in need. Past Honorees of this organization have included Jamie Lee Curtis and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

Lansbury had knee replacement surgery on July 14, 2005. [1]

Lansbury also enjoys vacation time regularly at her home in County Cork, Ireland.

Contents [hide]
1 Filmography
2 Television Work
3 Broadway Stage Performances
4 Awards
4.1 The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
4.2 Academy Awards
4.3 BAFTA Awards
4.4 Emmy Awards
4.5 Golden Globes
4.6 National Board of Review
4.7 Tony Awards
5 External links



[edit]
Filmography
Gaslight (1944)
National Velvet (1944)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
If Winter Comes (1947)
State of the Union (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
Tenth Avenue Angel (1948)
The Red Danube (1949)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Kind Lady (1951)
Mutiny (1952)
Remains to Be Seen (1953)
A Life at Stake (1954)
The Purple Mask (1955)
A Lawless Street (1955)
The Court Jester (1956)
Please Murder Me (1956)
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1959)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1962) (dubbed speaking voice for Ingrid Thulin for a few scenes)
All Fall Down (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
In the Cool of the Day (1963)
The World of Henry Orient (1964)
Dear Heart (1964)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
Harlow (1965)
Mister Buddwing (1966)
Something for Everyone (1970)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Lady Vanishes (1979)
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
The Last Unicorn (1982) (voice)
The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Ingrid (1985) (documentary)
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (voice)
Your Studio and You (1995) (short subject)
Anastasia (1997) (voice)
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999) TV movie (as Emily Pollifax)
About Schmidt (2002) (Cameo)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)
Nanny McPhee (2005)
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Television Work
The Story of the First Christmas Snow (1975)
Sweeney Todd (1982)
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
A Talent for Murder (1984)
Lace (1984)
The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984)
The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1984) (pilot for Murder, She Wrote)
Murder, She Wrote (1984-1996)
Rage of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)
Shootdown (1988)
The Shell Seekers (1989)
The Love She Sought (1990)
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992)
Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (1999)
Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For (2000)
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
The Blackwater Lightship (2004)
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Broadway Stage Performances
Hotel Paradiso (Apr. - Jul. 1957)
A Taste of Honey (Oct. 1960 - Sep. 1961)
Anyone Can Whistle (Apr. 1964)
Mame (May 1966 - Jan. 1970)
Dear World (Feb. - May 1969)
Gypsy (Sep. 1974 - Jan. 1975)
The King and I (May 1977 - Dec. 1978)
Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Mar. 1979 - Jun. 1980)
A Little Family Business (Dec. 1982)
Mame (Jul. - Aug. 1983)
Short Talks on the Universe (Nov. 2002)
[edit]
Awards
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The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Awarded the CBE in the 1990's which was bestowed upon her by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
[edit]
Academy Awards
Nominated:

Best Supporting Actress (Gaslight, 1945)
Best Supporting Actress (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1946)
Best Supporting Actress (The Manchurian Candidate, 1963)
[edit]
BAFTA Awards
Won:

Britannia Award (Lifetime Achievement, 2003)
Nominated:

Best Supporting Actress (Death on the Nile, 1978)
[edit]
Emmy Awards
Nominated:

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (for playing Eleanor Duvall in "Law & Order: Trial by Jury", 2005)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (The Blackwater Lightship, 2004)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1996)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1995)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1994)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1993)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1992)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1991)
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program ("The 43rd Annual Tony Awards", 1990)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1990)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1989)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1988)
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program ("The 41st Annual Tony Awards", 1987)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1987)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1986)
Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (Sweeney Todd, 1985)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series ("Murder, She Wrote", 1985)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie (Little Gloria... Happy at Last, 1983)
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Golden Globes
Won:

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1992)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1990)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1987)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1985)
Best Supporting Actress (The Manchurian Candidate, 1963)
Best Supporting Actress (The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1946)
Nominated:

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1995)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1993)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1991)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1989)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1988)
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama ("Murder, She Wrote", 1986)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Miniseries or TV-Movie (A Gift of Love: A Christmas Story, 1983)
Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy (Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 1972)
Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy (Something for Everyone, 1970)
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National Board of Review
Best Supporting Actress (Death on the Nile, 1978)
Best Supporting Actress (All Fall Down and The Manchurian Candidate, 1962)

Tony Awards
Won:

Best Actress (Mame, 1966)
Best Actress (Dear World, 1969)
Best Actress (Gypsy, 1975)
Best Actress (Sweeney Todd, 1979)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Lansbury

Thanks Hbg, and ahoy! to you out there in cold Canada

Here is the "original" of that song, if such a thing can be claimed in the world of song

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 will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on 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, deep soundings to take;
'Twas forty-five fathoms, with a white sandy bottom,
So we squared our main yard and up channel did make.
We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England;
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

The first land we sighted was called the Dodman,
Next Rame Head off Plymouth, off Portsmouth the Wight;
We sailed by Beachy, by Fairlight and Dover,
And then we bore up for the South Foreland light.
We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England;
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

Then the signal was made for the grand fleet to anchor,
And all in the Downs that night for to lie;
Let go your shank painter, let go your cat stopper!
Haul up your clewgarnets, let tacks and sheets fly!
We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt sea.
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England;
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

Now let ev'ry man drink off his full bumper,
And let ev'ry man drink off his full glass;
We'll drink and be jolly and drown melancholy,
And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass.
We will rant and we'll roar like true British sailors,
We'll rant and we'll roar all on the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England;
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues.

Or this, slightly different:

Spanish Ladies
Traditional - Lyrics from Shanties from the Seven Seas, by Stan Hugill


Farewell an' adieu to you fair Spanish ladies,
Farewell an' adieu to you ladies of Spain,
For we've received orders for to sail for old England,
An' hope very shortly to see you again.

We'll rant an' we'll roar, like true British sailors,
We'll rant an' we'll rave across the salt seas,
'Till we strike soundings in the Channel of Old England,
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-four leagues.

We hove our ship to, with the wind at sou'west, boys,
We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear.
In fifty-five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom,
We filled our maintops'l, up Channel did steer.

The first land we made was a point called the Deadman,
Next Ramshead off Plymouth, Start, Portland, and Wight.
We sailed then by Beachie, by Fairlee and Dungeyness,
Then bore straight away for the South Foreland Light.

Now the signal was made for the Grand Fleet 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.

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,
Drink a health to each jovial an' true-hearted soul.