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We Be Three Poor Mariners

Traditional:

courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com - English 1609 


We be three poor mariners

Newly come from the seas

We spend our lives in jeopardy

While others live at ease

Shall we go dance the round around around

Shall we go dance the round around around

And he that is a bully boy

Come pledge me on this ground

aground aground

We care not for those martial men

That do our states disdain

But we care for those merchantmen

That do our states maintain

Shall we go dance the round around around

Shall we go dance the round around around

And he that is a bully boy

Come pledge me on this ground

aground aground



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