Carrying Nelson Home Lyrics

Ease the bow spring
gently set the foresheets on the windward side
Let go fore and aft then as she turns
sail her full and by to catch the evening tide
Shake out those topsails
feel the seas roll under that she know so well
Find a star to guide her to the dawn
and then let her greet the long Atlantic swell
Sing me a chanty
Cantad del Cabo San Vicente
Chantez des Marin de Nile
Sing a hymn of Trafalgar
Stream the log now
for she's heeling with a land-breeze to inspire
Orange-scented from the groves of Andalucia
and within my mind Cadiz still gleams with fire
Give her sea-room
put Saint Vincent well astern by break of day
Then you shorten sail and harden up the sheets
and close-hauled we'll make the Northings slip away
Sing me a chanty
Cantad del Cabo San Vicente
Chantez des Marin de Nile
Sing a hymn of Trafalgar
One point to loo'ard
for the rolling seas are getting shorter now
They remind me of the lights of far Hyères
and they tell me Biscay's on the starboard bow
Shake out your reef
for carried on the breeze that's setting fair
Are spices from the quays of Lorient
you can sail her free to weather Finisterre
Sing me a chanty
Cantad del Cabo San Vicente
Chantez des Marin de Nile
Sing a hymn of Trafalgar
Ease your mainsheets
for it's soon we'll see the harbour lights of home
Anchor, make good every sheet and halyard
remembering just who you have on board
Pipe me ashore
gently hoist aloft your keg of brandy wine
Make ready to receive the admiral's barge
lower me easy, I'm going ashore one last time
Sing me a chanty
Cantad del Cabo San Vicente
Chantez des Marin de Nile
Sing a hymn of Trafalgar
Sing me a chanty
Cantad del Cabo San Vicente
Chantez des Marin de Nile
Sing a hymn of Trafalgar