Henry Martin Songtext
von Sam Larner

As we were got sailing
Five cold frosty nights
Five cold frosty nights and four days
It was there we espied
A lofty tall ship
She came bearing down on us brave boys
"Where are you a going
You lofty tall ship
How dare you draw venture so nigh
For I have turned robbing all on the salt sea

To maintain my two brothers and I."

Now come heave up your courses
And let go of your main sheets
And let her come under your lee


And I will take from you
Your rich merchant′s goods
And I'll point your bow guns to the sea

"I shall not heave up my courses
Nor let go of my main sheets
Nor I′ll let her come under my lee
Nor you shall take from me
My rich merchant's goods
Nor I'll point my bow guns to the sea."

Now broadside to broadside
These two vessels did lay
They were fighting for hours or more
′Til at length Henry Martin gave her a broadside
And she sank and she never rose more


Sad news I′ve to tell you
Sad news I've to tell
Bad news I′m a going to tell
Of a lofty tall ship
Lost on the salt sea
And the most of her mariners drowned