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Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
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Steeleye Span
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The gallant frigate Amphitrite, she lay in Plymouth Sound
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Blue Peter at her fore-mast head for she was outward bound
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We were waiting there for orders to send us far from home
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Our orders came for Rio, and thence around Cape Horn
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When we arrived at Rio we prepared for heavy gales
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We set up all our rigging, boys, and bent on all new sails
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From ship to ship they cheered us as we did sail along
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And wished us pleasant weather in the rounding of Cape Horn
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While beating off Magellan Straits it blew exceeding hard
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While shortening sail, two gallant tars fell from the topsail yard
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By angry seas the ropes we threw from their poor hands were torn
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We were forced to leave them to the sharks that prowl around Cape Horn
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When we got round the Horn, me boys, we had some glorious days
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And very soon our killick dropped in Valparaiso Bay
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Then pretty girls come down in flocks, I solemnly declare
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They're far before them Plymouth girls with the long and the waving hair
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They love a jolly sailor when he spends his money free
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They'll laugh and sing and merry merry be and have a jovial spree
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And when your money is all gone, they won't on you impose
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They are not like them Plymouth girls that'll pawn and sell your clothes
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Farewell to Valparaiso, and farewell for a while
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Likewise to all them Spanish girls along the coast of Chile
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And if ever I live to be paid off, I'll sit and sing this song
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God bless them pretty Spanish girls we left around Cape Horn
Steeleye Span - 'Gaudete' (Live)
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