Luyện nghe bài hát Barrett's Privateers

Oh, the year was 1778, HOW I I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
A of marque come from the king,
To the scummiest vessel I'd seen,

God them all!
I was told cruise the seas for American gold
fire no guns-shed no tears
Now I'm a man on a Halifax pier
The of Barrett's Privateers.

Oh, Barrett cried the town, HOW I WISH I WAS . . .
For twenty brave men all who
make for him the Antelope's crew
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The sloop was a sickening sight,
She'd a list to the and and her sails in rags
And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the
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On the King's we put to sea,
We 91 days to Montego Bay
Pumping madmen all the way
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On the 96th day we again,
When a bloody Yankee hove in sight
With our cracked pounders we made to fight
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The lay low down with gold,
She was broad and fat and in the stays
But to catch her the Antelope two whole days
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at length we stood two cables away,
Our cracked four pounders made an din
But one fat ball the Yank stove us in
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The shook and pitched on her side,
was smashed like a bowl of eggs
And the Maintruck off both me legs
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So I lay in my 23rd year,
It's been 6 years we sailed away
And I made Halifax yesterday
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