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Lyrics for Andro and His Cutty Gun by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Andro and His Cutty Gun | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 188 | | | | Lyrics: | ANDREW ROSS (ANDREW ROSE)
Come all you seamen and give attention
And listen for a while to
me
While I relate of a dreadful murder
Which happened on the briny sea
Andrew Ross*, an
Orkney Sailor
Whose sufferings now I will explain
While on a voyage from Barbado
On
board the vessel, Martha Jane
Oh think of what a cruel treatment
Without a friend to
interpose
They whipped and mangled, gagged and strangled
The Orkney sailor, Andrew
Ross
The mate and captain daily flogged him
With whips and ropes, I'll tell you
true
While on Andrew Ross' bleeding body
Water mixed with salt they threw
For twenty
days thus ill they used him
Oh think, what sorrow, grief and shame
Was suffered by this
gallant sailor
On board the vessel Martha Jane
The captain trained his dogs to bite
him
While Ross for mercy he did pray
And on the deck, his flesh in mouthfuls
Torn by the
dogs they lay
Then in a water tank they put him
For twelve long hours they kept him
there
While Ross for mercy he was pleading
The captain swore none should go near
The
captain ordered him to swallow
A thing thereof I shall not name
The sailors all grew sick
with horror
On board the vessel, Martha Jane
When nearly dean they did release him
And
on the deck they did him fling
In the midst of pain and suffering | | | |
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