Bay of Biscay 2
written by Andrew Cherry in the early 1800s
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com
Loud roared the dreadful thunder
The rain a deluge showers
The clouds were rent asunder
By lightning's vivid powers
The night was drear and dark
Our poor devoted bark
Till next day there she lay
In the Bay of Biscay Oh
Now, dashed upon the billow
Her opening timbers creak
Each fears a watery pillow
None stop the dreadful leak
To cling to slippery shrouds
Each breathless seaman crowds
As she lay till next day
In the Bay of Biscay Oh
At length the wished for morrow
Broke through the hazy sky
Absorbed in silent sorrow
Each heaved a bitter sigh
The dismal wreck to view
Struck horror in the crew
As she lay all that day
In the Bay of Biscay Oh
Her yielding timbers sever,
Her pitchy seams are rent,
When Heaven, all bounteous ever,
It's boundless mercy sent,
A sail in sight appears,
We hail her with three cheers,
Now we sail, with the gale,
From the Bay of Biscay Oh!
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