Lyrics
Come all, ye jolly mariners
That love to tack a dram
I'll tell ye all a robber
That all the seas did come
He wrote a letter to his kin
The 'leventh of July
To see if he would accept on him
His jovial company
"Oh, no, oh no," says the King
Such things that cannot be
They tell me ye a robber
A robber on the sea
Ah, he has built a bonny ship
And sent her to the sea
With four and twenty mariners
To guard his bonny ship wee
They sailed up and they sailed down
Say stately blind and free
'Til they spied the King's Irene did
A leviathan on the sea
They fought from 1 in the mornin'
'Til it was 6 at night
And 'til the King's Irene, dear
Was forced to take a flight
Gang him, gang him, he tinkers
Tell he a king we'll be
Though he'll be king upon dry land
I'll be king upon the sea
That love to tack a dram
I'll tell ye all a robber
That all the seas did come
He wrote a letter to his kin
The 'leventh of July
To see if he would accept on him
His jovial company
"Oh, no, oh no," says the King
Such things that cannot be
They tell me ye a robber
A robber on the sea
Ah, he has built a bonny ship
And sent her to the sea
With four and twenty mariners
To guard his bonny ship wee
They sailed up and they sailed down
Say stately blind and free
'Til they spied the King's Irene did
A leviathan on the sea
They fought from 1 in the mornin'
'Til it was 6 at night
And 'til the King's Irene, dear
Was forced to take a flight
Gang him, gang him, he tinkers
Tell he a king we'll be
Though he'll be king upon dry land
I'll be king upon the sea