I'm Afloat, I'm Afloat (The Rover of the Sea)

DESCRIPTION: "I'm afloat, I'm afloat, on he firce rolling tide, The ocean is my home and the barque is my bride." "I fear not the monarch I heed not the law." "Our flag of defiance still waves o'er the sea, Hurrah, boys, hurrah, boys, the rover is free."
AUTHOR: Words: Eliza Cook (1818-1889) / Music: Henry Russell (1812-1900)
EARLIEST DATE: 1847 (sheet music, according to Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
KEYWORDS: sailor pirate ship
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Huntington-SongsTheWhalemenSang, pp. 80-81, "The Rover of the Sea" (1 text)
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 46, "I'm Afloat, I'm Afloat" (1 text, 1 tune, plus a broadside reprint on p. 146, #32 in the first edition which also includes on p. 76 a sheet music cover which is not in the revised edition)
Roud #2025
SAME TUNE:
The Song of the Trap (File: AnSt079)
Life of Loafer [Part 2] (by Charles R. Thatcher, in "Thatcher's Colonial Songster") (Thatcher-ColonialMinstrel-Songsters, pp. 63-65)
NOTES [22 words]: For background on Eliza Cook, see the notes to "Grandmother's Chair." For background on Henry Russell, see "Cheer, Boys, Cheer (II)."
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File: FrPi046

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