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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 will 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's 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 he prove true to us,
 * when he proved falſe to them.

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