The Tempest - Sea Shanty - Lyrics

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Down with the topmast, lower, lower

Fall to't or we run ourselves aground

Heigh my hearts, cheerly, cheerly my hearts

I pray now keep below

 

Go tend to the master's whistle

Take in the topsail, ahold

Bestir, bestir, poor souls bestir

Shall we give o'er and drown

 

Now would I give a thousand furlongs

for one barren acre of ground

We split, we split, stand fast good fate

The will above be done

 

I'll be patient when the sea is

The shout "let's all sink with the king"

A plague, a plague upon this howling

They are louder than the weather

 

Down with the topmast lower, lower

Fall to't or we run ourselves aground

Heigh my hearts, cheerly, cheerly my hearts

I pray now keep below

I pray now keep below