What can you see from the masthead?
Spanish ships a - fishing
What can you see from the masthead?
A Portugee from Newfoundland
Rising up on the breaking wave
Let it carry you over all the sea in the morning
Weigh, hey, and up she rises, Sun is up, the bird's a-wing
And we're sailing free and easy
What can you see from the masthead ?
A trading ship for Galway
What does he pay for the passage?
A just reward for the pilot
Rising up on the breaking wave etc.
We'll stay at sea when the wind is keen and waves begin to billow
We'll keep to the sea when the wind it fails And homeward bound we'll row
Where shall we go for a cargo?
We'll run right down to Vigo
And if the Bay shall make a storm
We'll take a look in at Bordeaux
What spy you now form the masthead?
An Algerine on the quarter
What shall we do to greet him?
Acquaint him with our ordnance