{"id":7020,"date":"2004-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-07T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:45:48","slug":"spanish-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7020","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Argonaut.jpg\" height=\"440\" width=\"490\" alt=\"Argonaut.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"><a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\">Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Spanish_Ladies.mp3\">Spanish Ladies<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">This song gives a vivid picture of the sailing ships in the English Channel. The &#8216;Grand Fleet&#8217; was an old name for the Channel Fleet. &#8216;Deadman&#8217; and &#8216;Fairlee&#8217; are sea names for Dodman Point near Plymouth and Fairlight Hill near Hastings, and Ushant is the Ile d&#8217;Ouessant off Brest in France. Source: http:\/\/ingeb.org\/folksong.html<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n[Em] Farewell and adieu unto [G] you Spanish [D] ladies,<br \/>\n[Em] Farewell and adieu to you [G] ladies of [D] Spain;<br \/>\n[Em] For it&#8217;s we&#8217;ve received [D] orders for to [C] sail for old [Em] England,<br \/>\n[Em] But we hope very [D] soon we shall [C] see you [Em] again.<\/p>\n<p>Then we hove our ship to the wind at sou&#8217;-west, my boys,<br \/>\nWe hove our ship to our soundings for to see;<br \/>\nSo we rounded and sounded, and got forty-five fathoms,<br \/>\nWe squared our main yard, up channel steered we.<\/p>\n<p>Now the first land we made it is called the Deadman,<br \/>\nThen Ram Head off Plymouth, Start, Portland and Wight;<br \/>\nWe sailed by Beachy, by Fairlee and Dungeness,<br \/>\nUntil we came abreast of the South Foreland Light.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar like true British sailors,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar across the salt seas,<br \/>\nUntil we strike soundings in the Channel of old England,<br \/>\nFrom Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Then the signal was made for the grand fleet for to anchor,<br \/>\nAll in the downs that night for to meet;<br \/>\nThen it&#8217;s stand by your stoppers, see clear your shank-painters,<br \/>\nHaul all your clew garnets, stick out tacks and sheets.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar like true British sailors,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar across the salt seas,<br \/>\nUntil we strike soundings in the Channel of old England,<br \/>\nFrom Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Now let every man toss off a full bumper,<br \/>\nAnd let every man toss off a full bowl;<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll drink and be merry and drown melancholy,<br \/>\nSinging, here&#8217;s a good health to all true-hearted souls.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar like true British sailors,<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll rant and we&#8217;ll roar across the salt seas,<br \/>\nUntil we strike soundings in the Channel of old England,<br \/>\nFrom Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Spanish Ladies This song gives a vivid picture of the sailing ships in the English Channel. The &#8216;Grand Fleet&#8217; was an old name for the Channel Fleet. &#8216;Deadman&#8217; and &#8216;Fairlee&#8217; are sea names for Dodman Point near Plymouth and Fairlight Hill near Hastings, and Ushant is the Ile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7020\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spanish Ladies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8633,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7020\/revisions\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}