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Captain Ward

from Balance by Tempest

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CAPTAIN WARD
(Trad.)
This song tells a tale of the brave Scottish pirate, Captain Ward,
and his ferocious battle with The Royal Rainbow, the king's flagship.

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Come all you jolly mariners that love to take a dram
Let’s go and seek for Captain Ward who over the seas has come
He is the greatest robber as you shall quickly hear
There's not been such a robber found this last six hundred years

The King he got a letter on the sixth of January
Saying let bold Captain Ward come in with all his company
If that you do let him in until his tale is told
A ransom he will offer you, a twenty tons of gold

Oh no, no says the king
That can never be
Captain Ward he is a robber
A robber on the sea

Well the king he has provided a ship of noble fame
Called the Royal Rainbow if you would know her name
She was as well provided for as any ship could be
With full five hundred men on board to bear her company

When the Royal Rainbow came where Captain Ward did lie
Who is the master of this ship the Rainbow crew did cry
The same am I says Captain Ward, why ashamed I ne'er will be
If you were the king's fair ship you are welcome unto me

For I never robbed an English ship, just France's ships or Spain's
Likewise the blackguard Dutchman I met upon the main
Oh had I got a letter through this two weeks past or three
I would have spared Lord Essex life, this pains me grievously

Six o'clock in the morning they began to fight
So they did continue 'till nine o'clock at night
Fight on, fight on says Captain Ward, so well it pleases me
If you fight a month or more, your master I will be

Then the Royal Rainbow she fired all in vain
Until four hundred of her crew upon the decks lay slain
Go home, go home says Captain Ward, tell your king from me
He may rule king o'er the land, but Ward is king of sea

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from Balance, released April 24, 2001

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