Warlike Seamen-The Copper Family

[ti:Warlike Seamen] [ar:The Copper Family] [al:Come Write Me Down - Early Recordings of The Copper Family of Rottingdean] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Warlike Seamen - The Copper Family [00:00.55]Come all you warlike seamen [00:04.08]That to the seas belong [00:07.03] [00:07.81]I'll tell you of a fight my boys [00:11.45]On board the Nottingham [00:14.40] [00:15.23]It was of an Irish Captain [00:18.90]His name was Somerville [00:22.23] [00:22.75]With courage bold did he control [00:26.81]He played his part so well [00:30.15] [00:31.92]It was on the eighth of June my boys [00:35.47]When at Spithead we lay [00:38.24] [00:39.13]On board there came an order [00:42.24] [00:42.83]Our anchor for to weigh [00:46.08] [00:46.98]Bound for the coast of Ireland [00:50.33]Our orders did run so [00:53.94] [00:54.77]For us to cruise and not refuse [00:58.79]Against a daring foe [01:02.25] [01:04.26]We had not sailed many lengths [01:07.34]At sea before a ship we spied [01:10.89] [01:11.50]She being some lofty Frenchman [01:15.20]Come a-bearing down so wide [01:18.86] [01:19.40]We hailed her off France my boys [01:23.35]They asked from where we came [01:26.66] [01:27.47]Our answer was From Liverpool [01:31.69]And London is our name [01:35.29] [01:36.96]Oh pray are you some man of war [01:40.56]Or pray what may you be [01:43.75] [01:44.28]Oh then replied our Captain [01:47.81]And that you soon shall see [01:51.98]Come strike your English colours [01:55.72] [01:56.25]Or else you shall bring to [01:59.79] [02:00.58]Since you're so stout you shall [02:03.75]Give out or else we will sink you [02:08.81] [02:10.82]The first broadside we gave to them [02:14.66]Which made them to to wonder [02:18.00] [02:18.69]Their main-mast and their rigging [02:21.94]Came a-rattling down like thunder [02:26.11] [02:27.02]We drove them from their quarter [02:30.66] [02:31.22]They could no longer stay [02:34.77] [02:35.60]Our guns did roar we made so sure [02:40.28]We showed them British play [02:43.84] [02:45.90]So now we've took that ship my boys [02:49.68]God speed us fair wind [02:52.53] [02:53.33]That we might sail to Plymouth [02:56.88]I own if the heavens prove so kind [03:00.48] [03:01.44]We'll drink a health unto our Captain [03:05.77]And all such warlike souls [03:09.45] [03:10.10]To him we'll drink and never flinch [03:14.70]Out of a flowing bowl