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Likewise our second mate,
and twenty of our men.
While the rest of our bold seamen,
they were bedeck'd in blood,
But like bold Alexander,
through fire and smoke we stood.
But now the battle's over,
and fit for sea no more,
For the loss of legs and arms,
we poor seamen now doth mourn.
No benefit we have,
from the mercy of the waves,
But still true British seamen,
we doth our country save,
THE SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE.
Come all you gallant seamen
landsmen listen unto me,
Whilſt I relate a bloody fight,
was lately fought at sea.
So fierce and hot upon each ſide,
as plainly will appear.
There's not been such a battle fought;
no not this many a year.
The eighteenth day of May, brave boys,
from Halifax we set sail,
And up the American coast we did steer,
with a sweet and pleasant gale.
