Andy Battle's and Nod's Song [DE LA MARE poem set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2018-08-31

Andy Battle's and Nod's Song (Walter de la Mare)

Gm Dsus4 D
Once and there was a young sailor, yeo ho!
Gm D7-Gm
And he sailed out over the say
Gm Dsus4 D
For the isles where pink coral and palm branches blow.
Gm D7-Gm
And the fire-flies turn night into day,
Bm Em
Yeo Ho!
G D C D Em
And the fire-flies turn night into day.

But the Dolphin went down in a tempest, yeo ho!
And with three forsook sailors ashore,
The Portingals took him where sugar-canes grow,
Their slave for to be evermore,
Yeo Ho!
Their slave for to be evermore.

With his musket for mother and brother, yeo ho!
He warred with the cannibals drear,
In forests where panthers pad soft to and fro,
And the Pongo shakes noonday with fear,
Yeo Ho!
And the Pongo shakes noonday with fear.

Now lean with long travail, all wasted with woe,
With a monkey for messmate and friend,
He sits 'neath the Cross in the cankering snow,
And waits for his sorrowful end,
Yeo Ho!
And waits for his sorrowful end.


 
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