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On St. Patrick's Day, the seventeenth,
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From New York we set sail.
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Kind fortune did favour us
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With a sweet and pleasant gale,
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We bore away from Americay
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The wind being off the land.
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With courage brave we plouged the wave
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

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Our captain's name was Nelson
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Just twenty years of age.
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As true, as brave a sailor lad
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As ever ploughed a wave,
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The Eveline our brig was called
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Belonging to McLean;
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With courage brave we ploughed the wave
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

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When three days out, to our surprise,
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Our captain he fell sick.
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And shortly was not able
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To show himself on deck.
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The fever raged, which made us fear
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That death was near at hand
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We bore away from Halifax
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

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We made the land, but knew it not
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For strangers we were all;
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Our captain was not able
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To come on deck at all.
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Then we were obliged to haul
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Our brig from off the land
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With laden hearts we put to sea
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

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All that long night we ran our brig
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Till none o'clock next day.
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Our captain, on the point of death,
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To our record did say,
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"We'll bear away for Cape Canso
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Now, boys, come lend a hand
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And trim your topsail to the wind
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

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At three o'clock we sighted a light
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Which we were glad to see.
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The smallpox it being raging
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(That's what it proved to be)
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And at four o'clock in the afternoon
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As judge as God's command
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We anchored her safe in Arichat
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

[Verse 7]
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And for help and medicine
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Ashore then we did go.
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Our captain on the point of death
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Our sympathy to show,
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At five o'clock in the afternoon
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As judge as God's command
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In Arichat he breathed his last
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Bound down for Newfoundland.

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All that ling night we did lament
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For our departed friend
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And we were praying unto God
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For what had been his end.
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We'll pray the God will guide us
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And keep us by his hand
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And give us fair wind while at sea
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Bound down for Newfoundland.