The Seamans Frolick:
OR,
A Cooler for the Captain.
You Seamen bold that plow the Ocean Main
To read this Song do not at all disdain:
But rather learn thereby how to avoid,
The whores increase which many hath destroy'd.
To a New Tune; Or, Come no more there, etc.
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CAptain Robert is gone to Sea
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and I lov[']d him well, and I lov'd him well,
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With all his merry, merry, company
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ther's them can sing and say,
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Captain Robert is gone to Sea
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The girls for his return doth pray:
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And shall we never, never, while we live
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come no more there,
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We'l come no more there brave boys
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we'l come no more there:
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And we shall never, never, while we live
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come no more there.
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Our Captain is a Jovial blade
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and I lov'd him well, etc.
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And well he loves a prity Maid
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ther's them, etc.
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Our Captain is a Jovial blade
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And many a Gun hath under laid,
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And shall etc.
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I wish I was on the Starboard side
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and I lov'd him, etc.
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Withal my merry men in their pride
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ther's them, etc.
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I wish I were on the Starboard side
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With Cable an Anchor for to ride,
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And shall, etc.
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To the top, to the top, my little Ship boy,
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and I lov' him, etc.
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And see who you can there discry
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ther's them, etc.
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To the top, to the top, my little Ship boy.
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And see what Ships comes Sailing by
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And shall, etc.
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WE pitcht our Anchor in Plymouth sound
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and I lov'd him well, and I lov'd him well.
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And there we wasted many a pound
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ther's them can sing and say,
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We pitcht our Anchor in Plymouth sound
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And spent all our mony to one half Crown
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And shall we never, never, while we live
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come no more there,
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We'l come no more there brave boys
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we[']l come no more there:
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And we shall never, never while we live,
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come no more there.
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And with that mony I bought a Cony
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and I lov[']d her, etc.
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As good as ever was us'd by any
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ther's them, etc.
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And with that money I bought a Cony
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With sauce more sweet then any honey
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And shall, etc.
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Our Captain did a small pinnace board
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and he, etc.
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And left his own ship in the Road
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ther's them, etc.
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Our Captain did a small pinnace board
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Whilst we his merry men Sung and roar'd
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And shall, etc.
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She did abide him many a shot
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and he, etc.
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Before the upper hand he got
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and some can, etc.
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She did abide him many shot
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But under deck she prov'd too hot
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And shall, etc.
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It prov'd to him sad mishap
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and he, etc.
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He thinking for to stop the gap
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ther's them, etc.
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It prov'd to him a sad mishap
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For by report he got a clap,
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And shall, etc.
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Our Captain he hath got a red face,
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and I lov'd, etc.
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And now is in a pittiful case
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ther's them, etc.
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Our Captain he hath got a red face
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He does belong to the Whores increa[se]
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And shall, etc.
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Therefore brave Seamen all beware
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and I lov'd, etc.
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Before you venture have a care
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ther's them, etc.
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Therefore brave Seamen all beware
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How that you meddle with such ware,
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And shall, etc.
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When as you do desire to range
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and I lov'd her well and I lov'd her well
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And ware, for ware, for to exchange
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ther's them can sing and say,
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When as as you do desire to range
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Cast Anchor in no harbor strange,
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For fear you never, never, while you live
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come no more there,
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We'l come no more there brave boys
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we'l come no more there,
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And we shall never, never, while we live
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come no more there.
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