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My name, 'tis William Hollander
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As you will understand
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I was born in the County of Waterford
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Close by her salt sea strand
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And when I was young and in my prime
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Good fortune upon me shone
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And my parents raised me tenderly
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I was their only son
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Oh, my father rose one morning
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And along with him I did go.
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He apprenticed me as a butcher’s boy
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To Pearson’s of Wicklow
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And I wore their bloody aprons
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For three long yеars or more
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Til I shipped aboard The Ocеan Queen
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Belonging to Tramore
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‘Twas in Bermuda's sunny isle
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I met with Captain Moore
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The skipper of the Flying Cloud
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The pride of Baltimore
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And I undertook to ship with him
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On a slaving voyage to go
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To the burning shores of Africa
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Where the sugar cane does grow.
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And when we came at last unto
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Africa's burning shore
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Five hundred of them weeping blacks
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From their native lands we tore
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We loaded them in iron chain
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And we made them go below
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Scarce eighteen inches to the man
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Was all they had to show.
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And the plague came and the fever, too
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And it killed them off like flies
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We brought their bodies up on deck
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And we dumped them in the tide
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But those who died were luckier
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For they need not grieve no more
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Or wear the chain or feel the lash
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In Cuba forever more.
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Oh, we robbed and we plundered many a ship
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Both liner and frigate, too
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Until a British man-o-war
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The Dungeness, hove in view
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And she fired a shot across our bow
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As we sailed before the wind
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Chain-shot brought our mainmast down
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And we fell far behind.
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So, fare thee well, old Waterford
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And to the girl I do adore
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I'll never kiss your mouth again
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I’ll squeeze your breast no more
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For whiskey and bad company
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Has made a fool of me
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So, come all young men, a warning take
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Won't you shun all piracy?
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