[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:00.76]The Old Superb - Peter Dawson [00:06.28]The wind was rising easterly the morning sky was blue [00:08.68]The straits before us opened wide and free [00:12.84]We looked towards the admiral where high the peter flew [00:15.36]And all our hearts were dancing like the sea [00:19.55]The french are gone to martinique with four and twenty sail [00:22.12]The old superb is old and foul and slow [00:26.04]But the french are gone to martinique and nelson's on the trail [00:28.90]And where he goes the old superb must go [00:34.31]So westward ho for trinidad and eastward ho for spain [00:39.63]And ship ahoy a hundred times a day [00:45.56]Round the world if need be and round the world again [00:50.28]With a lame duck lagging all the way [01:02.86]The old superb was barnacled and green as grass below [01:05.42]Her sticks were only fit for stirring grog [01:09.53]The pride of all her midshipmen was silent long ago [01:12.10]And long ago they ceased to heave the log [01:16.46]Four year out from home she was and ne'er a week in port [01:19.01]And nothing save the guns aboard her bright [01:23.34]But captain keats he knew the game and swore to share the sport [01:26.05]For he never yet came in too late too fight [01:31.34]So westward ho for trinidad and eastward ho for spain [01:36.88]And ship ahoy a hundred times a day [01:42.74]Round the world if need be and round the world again [01:47.73]With a lame duck lagging all the way [01:59.63]Now up my lads the captain cried for sure the case were hard [02:02.43]If longest out were frst to fall behind [02:06.65]Aloft aloft with studding sails and lash them to the yard [02:09.10]For night and day the trades are driving blind [02:13.60]So all day long and all day long behind the fleet we crept [02:16.11]And how we fretted non but nelson guessed [02:20.10]But every night the old superb she sailed when others slept [02:22.52]Till we ran the french to earth with all the rest [02:31.52]O 'twas westward ho for trinidad and eastward ho for spain [02:36.44]And ship ahoy a hundred times a day [02:42.17]Round the world if need be and round the world again [02:52.78]With a lame duck lagging lagging all the way