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Come all you jolly sailors bold,
 * that live by tuck of drum,

I'll tell you of a rank robber,
 * now on the seas is come.

His name is called Captain Ward,
 * as you the truth shall hear,

There has not been such a robber,
 * this hundred and fifty year.

He wrote a letter to our king,
 * on the fifth of January,

To see if he would take him in,
 * and all his company.

To see if he would accept of him,
 * and all his jolly sailor'ssailors [sic] bold,

And for a ransom, he would give,
 * two thousand pounds in gold.

First he beguil'd the wild Turk,
 * and then the king of Spain,

Pray how can be prove true to us,
 * when he prov'd false to them.

O ho, O no, then said the king,
 * for no such things can be,