Captain Ward letra

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
On the eleventh of July
To see if he wad accept o' him
For his jovial company

"Oh na, oh na," says the king
"Oh that can never be,
They tell me that ye are a robber
A robber on the sea"

He has built a bonnie ship
An' sent her to the sea
Wi' fower and twenty mariners
To man his bonnie ship wi'

They sailed up an' they sailed doon
Sae stately, blythe, an' free
Till they spied the kings high Reindeer
Like a leviathan on the sea

"Why lie here, ye tinker
Ye silly coordly thief?
Why like here, ye tinker
An' hold oor king in grief?"

They fought from one in the morning
Till it was six at night
Until the king's high Reindeer
Was forced to tak' her flight

Gae hame, gae hame, ye tinkers
Tell ye your king fae me
Though he reign king upon good dry land
I will reign king upon sea

The Tannahill Weavers - Letras

• A Night Visitor's Song
• Aikendrum
• Are Ye Sleeping Maggie?
• At the End of a Pointed Gun
• Auld Lang Syne
• Birnie Bouzle
• Bonnie Was Yon Rosie Briar
• Braw Burn the Bridges
• Bustles and Bonnets
• Cam Ye by Atholl
• Cam' Ye O'er Frae France
• Captain Ward
• Come Under My Plaidie
• Craigieburn Wood
• Dark Eyed Molly
• Drink A Round
• Dumbarton's Drums
• Fareweel You Silver Darlins
• Farewell to Fiunary
• Fisher Row
• Grat For Gruel
• Hame
• Harris and the Mare
• Helen Of Kirkconnell
• Hieland Harry
• I Once Loved a Lass
• It Was All For Our Rightful King
• Jamie Raeburn's Farewell
• Jock Stewart
• Johnnie Cope
• Joy of My Heart
• Lady Dysie
• Lady Mary Anne
• Land of Light
• Lassie wi the Lintwhite Locks
• Last May a Braw Wooer
• Logie o Buchan
• Maggie Lauder
• Malley Leigh
• Marie Christine
• Mary Morrison
• My Love's in Germanie
• Ower the Hills and Faur Awa
• Ower the Moor Amang the Heather
• Rich Man's Silver
• Robin Tamson's Smiddy
• The American Stranger
• The Athol Gathering
• The Bergen
• The Braes o' Balquhidder
• The Braes o' Gleniffer
• The Brewer Laddie
• The Cuillins of Rhum
• The Ewie wi' the Crookit Horn
• The Final Trawl
• The Gallant Shearers
• The Great Ships
• The Gypsy Laddie
• The Laird O Cockpen
• The Overgate
• The Plooboy Laddies
• The Queen Amang the Heather
• The Rigs o Rye
• The Rose Amang the Thorn
• The Rovin Heilandman
• The Scottish Settler's Lament
• The Shearin's No For You
• The Standard on the Braes o' Mar
• The Terror Time
• The Three Healths
• The Trooper and the Maid
• The Wars o Germany
• The Yellow Haired Laddie
• Tranent Muir
• Up in the Mornin's no for Me
• Welcome Royal Cherlie
• Westlin Winds
• When the Kye Come Hame
• Wild Mountain Thyme