Stand To Your Guns
Traditional:
courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com - Thomas Carter early 1800's
Stand to your guns my hearts of oak
let not a word on board be spoke
Victory soon will crown the joke
be silent and be ready
Ram home your guns and sponge them
well let us be sure the balls will tell
The cannon's roar shall sound their knell
be steady, boys be steady
Not yet, nor yet, nor yet reserve your fire -
I do desire " fire"
Now the elements do rattle the Gods
amazed behold the battle
A broadside my boys see
the blood in purple tide
Trickle down her battered side
winged with fate the bullets fly
Conquer boys or bravely die
hurl destruction on your foes
She sinks Huzza! to the bottom
to the bottom down she goes
The author of this website has put a lot of time and effort into gathering the greatest collection of sea shanties for the world to enjoy - There are songs that have been to sung to a job of work at sea for many, many years and collecting them has been a great endeavour. - Roger Chartier has made the effort out of his own interest and the requests that he has gotten to do this work from fellow musicians who wanted a good source of sea shanties to draw on and learn from. He has been told that for this effort he is a remarkable man.
