Pyrates! Uncharted Lands 13 The Bold Robber

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The Bold Robber,
Pyrates!
Uncharted Lands
2014

Roud No: 1464

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The Bold Robber

Oh, come all you people that go out a-tippling,
I pray you’ll give attention and listen to my song.
I'll sing a little ditty, all of a bold robber,
Who stood seven foot high, in proportion quite strong.

He robbed lawyer Morgan and old Lady Dawkins;
Five hundred bright guineas from each one of them;
And as he was a-strolling he met a young sailor,
And bold as a lion he slewed up to him.

"Hand over your money, you saucy young sailor.
You've plenty of bulk in your pocket, I know."
"Oh, aye," says the sailor, "I have got a bit of money,
And I'd damned if I see why I should give it to you.

I've just left my ship, give the press-gang the slip,
And I'm bound up to London my sweetheart to see.
I've four bright sovereigns for to pay our sweet lodgings,
So I pray you, jolly robber, please leave it to me."

Then the robber caught hold of that gallant young sailor;
With a blow like a pole-axe felled him to the ground.
"Oh aye," says the sailor, "You have struck me quite heavy,
And now I'll endeavour to repay you in kind."

It was then, boys, they stripped and like tigers they skipped,
And they fought blow for blow like to soldiers in the field.
At the ninety-seventh meeting it was the completing,
For this gallant young sailor the bold robber he killed.

Then the sailor looked down on the bloodstained bold robber.
"I hope you'll forgive me, old fellow," says he,
"But if I had just lifted a thousand bright guineas,
I’d be damned if I'd have stopped a poor sailor like me."

Oh, come all you people that go out a-tippling,
I pray you’ll give attention and listen to my song.
It’s follow to rob from the poor, who’ve no money,
When a man can live off the rich and wealthy?






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