{"id":1474,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/flying-cloud-the"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"flying-cloud-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/flying-cloud-the\/","title":{"rendered":"FLYING CLOUD, THE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

My name is Arthur Hollandin, as you may understand
\nI was born ten miles from Dublin Town, down on the salt-sea strand,
\nWhen I was young and’ comely, sure, good fortune on me shone,
\nMy parents loved me tenderly for I was their only son.<\/p>\n

My father he rose up one day and with him I did go,
\nHe bound me as a butcher’s boy to Pearson of Wicklow,
\n1 wore the bloody apron there for three long years and more,
\nTill I shipped on board of The Ocean Queen belonging to Tramore.<\/p>\n

It was on Bermuda’s island that I met with Captain Moore,
\nThe Captain of The Flying Cloud, the pride of Baltimore,
\nI undertook to ship with him on a slaving voyage to go,
\nTo the burning shores of Africa, where the sugar cane does grow.<\/p>\n

It all went well until the day we reached old Africa’s shore,
\nAnd five hundred of them poor slaves, me boys, from their native land we bore,
\nEach man was loaded down with chains as we made them walk below,
\nJust eighteen inches of space was all that each man had to show.<\/p>\n

The plague it came and fever too and killed them off like flies,
\nWe dumped their bodies on the deck and hove them overside,
\nFor sure, the dead were the lucky ones for they’d have to weep no more,
\nNor drag the chain and feel the lash in slavery for evermore.<\/p>\n

But now our money it is all spent, we must go to sea once more,
\nAnd all but five remained to listen to the words of Captain Moore,
\n‘There’s gold and silver to be had if with me you’ll remain,
\nLet’s hoist the pirate flag aloft and sweep the Spanish Main.’<\/p>\n

The Flying Cloud was a Yankee ship, five hundred tons or more,
\nShe could outsail any clipper ship hailing out of Baltimore,
\nWith her canvas white as the driven snow and on it there’s no specks,
\nAnd forty men and fourteen guns she carried below her decks.<\/p>\n

We plundered many a gallant ship down on the Spanish Main,
\nKilled many a man and left his wife and children to remain,
\nTo none we showed no kindness but gave them watery graves ,
\nFor the saying of our captain was: “Dead men tell no tales. “<\/p>\n

We ran and fought with many a ship, both frigates and liners too,
\nTill, at last, a British Man-O-War, The Dunmow, hove in view,
\nShe fired a shot across our bows as we ran before the wind,
\nAnd a chainshot cut our mainmast down and we fell far behind.<\/p>\n

They beat our crew to quarters as they drew up alongside,
\nAnd soon across our quarter-deck there ran a crimson tide,
\nWe fought until they killed our captain and twenty of our men,
\nThen a bombshell set our ship on fire, we had to surrender then.<\/p>\n

It’s now to Newgate we have come, bound down with iron chains ,
\nFor the sinking and the plundering of ships on the Spanish Main,
\nThe judge he has condemned us and we are condemned to die.
\nYoung men a warning by me take and shun all piracy.<\/p>\n

Farewell to Dublin City. and the girl that I adore,
\nI’ll never kiss your cheek again nor hold your hand no more,
\nWhiskey and bad company have made a wretch of me,
\nYoung men, a warning by me take and shun all piracy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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