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Running The Easting Down

from Into The Blue by The Southern Ocean Sea Band

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YOU can prate of yer ocean racing and swift Cunarders too.
That skip The Ditch by power of steam and the thrust of a mighty screw.
You may thrill in the Aquitania or ships of like renown.
But gimme a trip in a clipper ship when running her Easting down.

D'ye mind the dav when we squared away and ran her East by South?
When she trampled down the big Horn seas with a roaring bone in her mouth.
When the best hands twirled her bucking wheel and dared not look behind
At the growling grey-back in her wake. . . D'ye mind, old pal, d'ye mind?

You can keep your steam boat racers & your hulks of no renown
and gimme a trip in a clipper ship when running her Easting down.

Them were the days with the life-lines strung from the poop to fo'c'sle head.
When the cook 'n stoo' had their work cut out to give us our daily bread,
When the dollops came thundering over the rails and flooded the decks in a broil,
And us poor devils were plunged to the necks as we hoisted and sheeted a royal.
D'ye mind the smile in the Skipper's eyes when he summed her daily run?
And the blighter would hang to his rags aloft 'til a gan's'l banged like a gun.
And the cloths of it flogged from the bolt-ropes and canvas-threads whitened the stay. . .
It was "Leggo that mizzen t'gallant, me sons; 'n aloft and cut it away!"

Spare not a square inch of canvas, like a maid in a silken gown,
and gimme a trip in a clipper ship when running her Easting down.

It was wonderful square-yard sailing, m'lad, and glorious storming through
The watery hills of fifty south with bar-taut brace and clew
And preventer-sheets on the tops'ls, and the fores'l arched like a bow.
As she ran like a hound to the East'ard, — 'n, Lord, how the hooker did go!
Ye can have yer steam-boat racing, but gimme the run in a gale
Of a well-geared able clipper what is driven by snow-white sail.
For I've known the thrill of a piling sea and the sky in a cloud-flecked gown,
And fourteen knots in a wind-bag when she's running her Easting down !

So gimme a trip in a clipper ship when running her Easting down.

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from Into The Blue, released March 10, 2023

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The Southern Ocean Sea Band Port Fairy, Australia

The Southern Ocean Sea Band are a 10-piece band singing historical songs & shanties about their hometown.

Borne directly from the late Danny Spooner’s ‘Shanties at the River,’ sessions, they made their Port Fairy Folk Festival debut to launch their album, 'Blood & Bones & Fins & Glory,' in 2017, and have since toured the regions, spreading their historical songs & shanty love far and wide. ... more

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