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That night when through the mooring chains	A
The wide eyed corpse rolled free	B
To blunder down by Garden Reach	C
And rot at Kedgeree	B
The tale the Hughli told the shoal	D
The lean shoal told to me	B
	-
'T was Fultah Fisher's boarding house	E
Where sailor men reside	F
And there were men of all the ports	G
From Mississip to Clyde	F
And regally they spat and smoked	H
And fearsomely they lied	F
	-
They lied about the purple Sea	B
That gave them scanty bread	I
They lied about the Earth beneath	J
The Heavens overhead	I
For they had looked too often on	K
Black rum when that was red	I
	-
They told their tales of wreck and wrong	L
Of shame and lust and fraud	M
They backed their toughest statements with	N
The Brimstone of the Lord	O
And crackling oaths went to and fro	B
Across the fist banged board	O
	-
And there was Hans the blue eyed Dane	P
Bull throated bare of arm	Q
Who carried on his hairy chest	R
The maid Ultruda's charm	Q
The little silver crucifix	S
That keeps a man from harm	Q
	-
And there was Jake Withouth the Ears	T
And Pamba the Malay	D
And Carboy Gin the Guinea cook	U
And Luz from Vigo Bay	D
And Honest Jack who sold them slops	T
And harvested their pay	D
	-
And there was Salem Hardieker	B
A lean Bostonian he	B
Russ German English Halfbreed Finn	V
Yank Dane and Portuguee	U
At Fultah Fisher's boarding house	T
The rested from the sea	B
	-
Now Anne of Austria shared their drinks	T
Collinga knew her fame	W
From Tarnau in Galicia	X
To Juan Bazaar she came	W
To eat the bread of infamy	B
And take the wage of shame	W
	-
She held a dozen men to heel	D
Rich spoil of war was hers	T
In hose and gown and ring and chain	P
From twenty mariners	T
And by Port Law that week men called	Y
her Salem Hardieker's	T
	-
But seamen learnt what landsmen know	B
That neither gifts nor gain	P
Can hold a winking Light o' Love	Z
Or Fancy's flight restrain	P
When Anne of Austria rolled her eyes	T
On Hans the blue eyed Dane	P
	-
Since Life is strife and strife means knife	A2
From Howrah to the Bay	D
And he may die before the dawn	B2
Who liquored out the day	D
In Fultah Fisher's boarding house	T
We woo while yet we may	D
	-
But cold was Hans the blue eyed Dane	P
Bull throated bare of arm	Q
And laughter shook the chest beneath	J
The maid Ultruda's charm	Q
The little silver crucifix	T
That keeps a man from harm	Q
	-
quot You speak to Salem Hardieker	B
quot You was his girl I know	B
quot I ship mineselfs to morrow see	T
quot Und round the Skaw we go	B
quot South down the Cattegat by Hjelm	C2
quot To Besser in Saro quot	D
	-
When love rejected turns to hate	D
All ill betide the man	D2
quot You speak to Salem Hardieker quot	D
She spoke as woman can	D2
A scream a sob quot He called me names quot	D
And then the fray began	D2
	-
An oath from Salem Hardieker	B
A shriek upon the stairs	T
A dance of shadows on the wall	D
A knife thrust unawares	T
And Hans came down as cattle drop	E2
Across the broken chairs	T
	-
	-
	-
In Anne of Austria's trembling hands	T
The weary head fell low	B
quot I ship mineselfs to morrow straight	D
quot For Besser in Saro	B
quot Und there Ultruda comes to me	T
quot At Easter und I go	B
	-
quot South down the Cattegat What's here	B
quot There are no lights to guide quot	D
The mutter ceased the spirit passed	D
And Anne of Austria cried	D
In Fultah Fisher's boarding house	T
When Hans the mighty died	D
	-
Thus slew they Hans the blue eyed Dane	P
Bull throated bare of arm	Q
But Anne of Austria looted first	D
The maid Ultruda's charm	Q
The little silver crucifix	T
That keeps a man from harm	Q

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