{"id":408,"date":"2014-12-11T20:53:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petercookie.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2016-03-21T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:00:18","slug":"as-we-sailed-from-the-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/11\/as-we-sailed-from-the-downs\/","title":{"rendered":"As we lows&#8217;d  from the Downs in the Nancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mp3jWrap_0\" class=\"mjp-s-wrapper s-graphic unsel-mjp  sdl_right\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span id=\"playpause_wrap_mp3j_0\" class=\"wrap_inline_mp3j\" style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span class=\"gfxbutton_mp3j play-mjp\" id=\"playpause_mp3j_0\" style=\"font-size:18px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"group_wrap\"><span class=\"bars_mp3j\"><span class=\"loadB_mp3j\" id=\"load_mp3j_0\"><\/span><span class=\"posbarB_mp3j\" id=\"posbar_mp3j_0\"><\/span><\/span><span class=\"T_mp3j\" id=\"T_mp3j_0\" 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appear to have come from the pen of the musician and theatre proprietor Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) who composed numerous patriotic songs of sea and war and whose music stayed popular for decades after his death.\u00a0 The text was often printed in small collections such as <em>The Universal Songster<\/em> (vol iii, London 1826) and among the earliest was <em>The Edinburgh Musical Miscellany<\/em> (1793. vol.ii, p. 91).\u00a0 This strong modal melody that Grace sings is not Dibdin\u2019s tune but one that is possibly\u00a0far older and more a part of oral tradition than any songs performed\u00a0in the fashionable London theatres during\u00a0Dibdin\u2019s time.\u00a0\u00a0 (Roud index no. 25912).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>We lows\u2019d from the Downs in the Nancy,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> My boys how she smack\u2019d through the breeze!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> She\u2019s the best sailing ship to my fancy<\/em><br \/>\n<em> That ever did sail the salt seas.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> So farewell to the fair white cliffs of Britain,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Our girls and our dear native shore<\/em><br \/>\n<em> For if some hard rock she should split on,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We\u2019ll never see them any more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>But sailors are born to all weathers,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Great guns blow you high, blow you low,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> When duty binds us all together,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And where the gale drives we must go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>As we entered the Gut of Gibraltar<\/em><br \/>\n<em> I verily thought she would sink,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> For the winds there all seemed for to alter,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And she reeled just as tho\u2019 she were drunk.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The squall blew our mainsail to shivers,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2018Helm a-weather\u2019, th\u2019old hoarse bosun cries ;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> \u2018Brace the foreyards, my lads, see she quivers,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> As through the rough tempest 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We were stranded,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And out of a\u00a0fine jolly crew<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Of three hundred that sail\u2019d, safely landed<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But I, and I think, twenty-two.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>For sailors are born for all weathers, etc\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>But now for so long have I tarried<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Another guess way set the wind,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But to England\u00a0I\u00a0came to get married<\/em><br \/>\n<em> To a lass that was comely and kind<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But whether for joy or vexation<\/em><br \/>\n<em> We know not for what we were born<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Perhaps I may find a kind station,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Perhaps I may touch at Cape Horn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><em>But sailors are born to all weathers, etc\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sssa.llc.ed.ac.uk\/whalsay\/2014\/12\/11\/as-we-sailed-from-the-downs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,34],"tags":[75,110,143],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grace-anderson","category-a-h","tag-dibdin","tag-london-theatre","tag-sea-song"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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