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(7)  THE BRITISH TAR.

all you thoughtless young men,

and a warning take by me,

And never leave your native homes

to ploug'd the raging sea;

For I have ploug’d the raging sea,

these twenty years and more,

But now I'm turned adrift

to starve on my native shore.

When war first assailed us,

I quickly left my trade,

My country was in danger,

I flew to lend my aid,

And in my country’s service,

lang, lang fatigues I bore.

But now I am turn’d adrift,

to starve on ray native shore.

By storms and raging tempests,

three times I have shipwreck’d been,

And many a blood battle

upon the seas I've seen;;