Weighing anchor (George Alexander Macfarren)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-02-12). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 150 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Weighing anchor
Composer: George Alexander Macfarren
Lyricist: John Oxenford
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1872
2nd published: 1880 The Orpheus no.26
Description: From the cantata Outward bound.
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Original text and translations
English text
The anchor that we raise,
We waken thoughts of former days,
The waves that round us swell
Some good old story plainly tell.
The lingo that they talk,
A landsman's brain would baulk;
We know it well; where'er we roam,
At sea the sailor ever feels at home.
Then heave and ho, sing rumbelow,
Yo ho, yo ho, and off we go.
We see brave Nelson's shade,
And hear the gallant words he said:
"My men, your duty do,
For England this expects of you;"
Trafalgar's noble fight
Shall cheer our dreams tonight;
We'll spin long yarns of what we've seen,
And shout anew "Britannia and our Queen."
Then heave and ho, sing rumbelow,
Yo ho, yo ho, and off we go.