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I tell you a tale to night	A
Which a seaman told to me	B
With eyes that gleamed in the lanthorn light	A
And a voice as low as the sea	B
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You could almost hear the stars	C
Twinkling up in the sky	D
And the old wind woke and moaned in the spars	C
And the same old waves went by	D
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Singing the same old song	E
As ages and ages ago	F
While he froze my blood in that deep sea night	A
With the things he seemed to know	F
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A bare foot pattered on deck	G
Ropes creaked then all grew still	H
And he pointed his finger straight in my face	C
And growled as a sea dog will	H
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'Do 'ee know who Nelson was	C
That pore little shrivelled form	I
With the patch on his eye and the pinned up sleeve	J
And a soul like a North Sea storm	I
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'Ask of the Devonshire men	K
They know and they'll tell you true	L
He wasn't the pore little chawed up chap	M
That Hardy thought he knew	L
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'He wasn't the man you think	N
His patch was a dern disguise	C
For he knew that they'd find him out d'you see	C
If they looked him in both his eyes	C
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'He was twice as big as he seemed	O
But his clothes were cunningly made	P
He'd both of his hairy arms alright	A
The sleeve was a trick of the trade	P
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'You've heard of sperrits no doubt	Q
Well there's more in the matter than that	R
But he wasn't the patch and he wasn't the sleeve	J
And he wasn't the laced cocked hat	R
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'Nelson was just a Ghost	S
You may laugh But the Devonshire men	K
They knew that he'd come when England called	T
And they know that he'll come again	K
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'I'll tell you the way it was	C
For none of the landsmen know	F
And to tell it you right you must go a starn	U
Two hundred years or so	F
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'The waves were lapping and slapping	V
The same as they are today	W
And Drake lay dying aboard his ship	X
In Nobre Dios Bay	W
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'The scent of foreign flowers	C
Came floating all around	Y
'But I'd give my soul for the smell o' the pitch '	-
Says he 'in Plymouth Sound	Y
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''What shall I do ' he says	C
'When the guns begin to roar	Z
An' England wants me and me not there	A2
To shatter 'er fores once more '	-
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' You've heard what he said maybe	C
But I'll mark you the p'ints again	K
For I want you to box your compass right	A
And get my story plain	B2
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' 'You must take my drum' he says	C
'To the old sea wall at home	C2
And if ever you strike that drum ' he says	C
'Why strike me blind I'll come	D2
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''If England needs me dead	E2
Or living I'll rise that day	W
I'll rise from the darkness under the sea	C
Ten thousand miles away '	-
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'That's what he said and he died	F2
An' his pirates listenin' roun'	B2
With their crimson doublets and jewelled swords	C
That flashed as the sun went down	B2
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'They sewed him up in his shroud	G2
With a round shot top and toe	F
To sink him under the salt sharp sea	C
Where all good seamen go	F
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'They lowered him down in the deep	H2
And there in the sunset light	A
They boomed a broadside over his grave	I2
As meaning to say 'Good night '	-
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'They sailed away in the dark	J2
To the dear little isle they knew	B2
And they hung his drum by the old sea wall	K2
The same as he told them to	B2
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'Two hundred years went by	D
And the guns began to roar	Z
And England was fighting hard for her life	L2
As ever she fought of yore	Z
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''It's only my dead that count '	-
She said as she says today	W
'It isn't the ships and it isn't the guns	C
'Ull sweep Trafalgar's Bay '	-
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'D'you guess who Nelson was	C
You may laugh but it's true as true	B2
There was more in that pore little chawed up chap	M
Than ever his best friend knew	B2
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'The foe was creepin' close	C
In the dark to our white cliffed isle	M2
They were ready to leap at England's throat	N2
When O you may smile you may smile	M2
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'But ask of the Devenshire men	B2
For they heard in the dead of night	A
The roll of a drum and they saw him pass	C
On a ship all shining white	A
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'He stretched out his dead cold face	C
And he sailed in the grand old way	W
The fishes had taken an eye and his arm	O2
But he swept Trafalgar's Bay	W
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'Nelson was Francis Drake	P2
O what matters the uniform	I
Or the patch on your eye or your pinned up sleeve	J
If your soul's like a North Sea storm '	-

Alfred Noyes

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