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- ' "A Capital Ship"
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- T110 O2 MS L8
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- ' A capital ship for an ocean trip
- F > L16 CCC8 C8 CC < L8 AGF
- ' Was the Walloping Window-Blind,
- L16 GG AA L8 AGFG. P8
- ' No wind that blew dismayed her crew
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- ' Nor troubled the captain's mind.
- G L16 AAA. L8 GG F. P8
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- ' The man at the wheel was made to feel
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- ' Contempt for the wildest blow, ho, ho!
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- ' But, it often appeared when the gale had cleared
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- ' That he'd been in his bunk below.
- L16 GG AAA. L8 GG F. P8
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- ' Chorus:
- ' So blow, ye winds, heigh-ho!
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- ' It's off to sea I go!
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- ' I'll stay no more on England shore,
- C FF EE FCC
- ' So let the music play, hey, hey!
- CDC < B- A G4 A4 B-. P16
- ' I'm off to the bounding main,
- >C.<F L16 FF L8 F A >C. P16
- ' I'll cross the raging plain!
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- ' I'm off to my love with a boxing glove
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- ' Ten thousand miles away!
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