Red Rover's Song, The

DESCRIPTION: "A merry life is ours, I trow, while o'er the billows' surge we go. Our birthright joy! to care unknown." "The skies may frown, or be they fair, we little look, and less we care." "But oh! our greatest joy will be: to feel, to know we're brace and free."
AUTHOR: words: Edmund Smith (1672-1710) / Music: Chevalier Sigismund von Neukomm (1778-1858) (source: Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: before 1843 (source: Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
KEYWORDS: sailor nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 49, "The Red Rover Song" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #V36074
NOTES [42 words]: Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs calls lyricist Edmumd Smith an "English bard." I never knew the definition of "bard" was "someone who knows nothing about the sea and whose so-called verses induce nausea." We're in the William McGonagall league here, folks. - RBW
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