All Britons long expected good news from our fleet,
Commanded by Lord Nelson, the French for to meet,
Till at length the news come over through the country was spread,
That the French were defeated but Nelson was dead.

He was a bold commander, as sail the ocean wide,
He made the French to tremble with his terrible broadside;
One hundred fights he'd been in, and never once was beat,
Though he'd one arm and one eye no power could him defeat.

This bold undaunted hero on the quarter deck he stood,
You would admire his action with the decks awash with blood.
But aloft all in the rigging a Frenchman fired a ball,
And that was the cause of our bold Lord Nelson's fall.

Then up steps the doctor in a hurry he did say:
"My lord, indeed I'm sorry to see you bleed this way."
"No matter, and no matter, whatever about me,
It's to my gallant seamen your first duty should be."

He called unto his captain: "How does the battle go?
I hear our great guns rattle, oh death is near I know."
"Oh, it's eighteen we have captured and our men they are on board,
And we'll blow the French from the ocean, my lord."

Come all you bold seamen, let the bottle go round,
For Nelson was loyal and true to the crown.
Here's God bless all seamen that speak of his good,
And God bless our fleet and the brave Lord Collingwood.

But mourn, England, mourn, oh mourn and complain,
For the loss of Lord Nelson that died on the main.

Our captain stood upon the deck, a spyglass in his hand
A viewing of those gallant whales that blowed at every strand.
Get your tubs in your boats, my boys, and by your braces stance,
And we'll have one of those gallant whales, hand, boys, over hand!

Ch: So be cheery, my lads! let your hearts never fail!
While the bold harpooner is a striking of the whale!

"Overhaul, overhaul! Your davit-tackles fall,
Till you land your boats in the sea one and all!"
Our waist-boat got down, and of course she got the start:
Lay me no, Captain Bunker, I'm hell for a long dart!

Our first mate he struck, and the whale he went down;
The captain he stood by all ready for to bend on;
Which caused the whale to vomic, and the blood for to spout:
In less than ten minutes he rolled both fins out!

Come all ye young females, I pray you'll attend
To these twa or three letters that I've newly penned,
To let you understand the hardships I undergo,
When first I fell in love wi' young Sally Monroe.

I wrote her a letter, a letter I did send;
I sent it with a comrade I thought to be a friend.
Instead of bein' a friend to me, he proved to be a for,
And he never gave that letter to young Sally Monroe.

It was on a Sunday morning about six o'clock,
'Twas all in a sudden our ship did strike a rock.
Three hundred and fifty were all sank below,
And out among that number I lost Sally Monroe.

'Twas from her aged parents I stole her away,
And that will grieve my conscience till my dying day.
It was not for to injure her that I did do so,
And all my life I'll mou-rn for young Sally Monroe!