OH! FIRM AS OAK. Music by BISHOP. H! firm as oak, and free from care, And Cupid page to Neptune be. Come night's deep noon, and ne'er a moon, Nor star aloft a watch to keep, The tar can be gay as landsmen in day, And smooth the tide flows, When wintry gales blow bleak alarms, The tar can be gay as landsmen in day, And smooth the tide flows, ROCK'D IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP. Music by KNIGHT. JOCK'D in the cradle of the deep, For thou, O Lord, hast power to save. When in the dead of night I lay And such the trust that still was mine, The germ of immortality; And calm and peaceful is my sleep, Y INDEX. DIEU, adieu! my native shore call. Again the willing trump of fame Ah, hark! the signals round the coast. A plague of those musty old lubbers A sailor's life's a life of woe A sailor's love is void of art Page 205 154 152 176 186 8 276 15 29 20 24 As a sailor's all one as a piece of the ship As pensive one night in my garret I sate 133 115 A thousand miles from land are we At Wapping I landed, and call'd to hail Mog Bleak was the morn when William left his Nancy 65 Blow, Boreas, blow! thy surly winds. By the friends we have lost-by the smile we can never Come cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer 187 Come, come, my lads! the war is o'er 130 Come, if you dare, our trumpets sound 300 Come, listen to a seaman's ditty 140 Come, messmates, rejoice! for old England so glorious 173 59 Come, sailors, be filling the can. 238 Come sing, come sing, of the great sea-king 227 Daddy Neptune, one day, to Freedom did say 212 Drear, dark, and dreadful low'red the sky For England, when, with fav'ring gale Go patter to lubbers and swabs, d'ye see I be one of they sailors who think 'tis no lie 44 If a landsman would know the true creed of a tar 272 If, bold and brave, thou canst not bear 54 If ever a sailor was fond of good sport 85 If lubberly landsmen, to gratitude strangers 80 If, my hearty, you'd not like a lubber appear In a vessel of my own I have oft ta'en a trip 277 In either eye a lingering tear 160 In May fifteen hundred and eighty-eight 214 |