Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we have received orders For to sail to old England We hope in a short time to see you again
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues we hove our ship to with the wind at the sou'west boys Then we hove our ship to deep soundings to take Twas 45 fathoms with a white sandy bottom So we squared our main yard And up channel did make We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues Now let every man drink off his full bumper Let every man drink off his full glass We'll drink and be jolly And drown melancholy And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues
The first land we sighted was called the Dodman Next Ram Head off Plymouth Start Portland and the Wight We sailed then by Beachy By Fairly and Dover Then bore away for the South Foreland light We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues
Then the signal was made For the grand fleet to Anker And all in the Downs that night for to lie Let go your shank painter Let go your cat See clear your shank painters Hawl all your clew garnets let tack and sheets fly
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues
Now let every man drink off his full bumper Let every man drink off his full glass We'll drink and be jolly And drown melancholy And here's to the health of each true-hearted lass
We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors We'll rant and we'll roar along the salt seas Until we strike soundings In the Channel of old England From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues