Lord Franklin

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T:Lord Franklin
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z2DD | "G" G2(AB) B4A2G2 | "C" E2E E- E4 "Am" z2 EE |
w: It was home-ward_ bound one night on the deep_ Swing-ing
A2B2(c B3)A2G2 | "D" F3D D4 (d2c2) |
w: in my ham-mock I_ fell a-sleep I_
"G" B3A G4A2B2 | "C" c2>d2 "G" d4 "Em" z2B2 |
w: dreamed a dream, and I thought it true con-
B2B2 "Am" c2A2 "D" F2>A2 | "C" G G3 "G"G4 z4 |]
w: cern-ing Frank-lin and his gal-lant crew
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W: 1. It was homeward bound one night on the deep,
W: Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep.
W: I dreamed a dream, and I thought it true
W: Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.
W: 
W: 2. With a hundred seamen he sailed away
W: To the frozen ocean in the month of May
W: To seek a passage around the Pole
W: where the poor seamen do sometimes go.
W: 
W: 3. Through cruel hardships they manly strove.
W: Their ships on mountains of ice was drove.
W: Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
W: Was the only one to ever come through.
W: 
W: 4. In Baffin Bay where the whale fishes blow,
W: the fate of Franklin no man may know.
W: The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell,
W: Lord Franklin along with his sailors dwell.
W: 
W: 5. And now my burden it gives me pain.
W: For my lost Franklin I would cross the main,
W: Ten thousand pounds would I freely give
W: To say on earth that my Franklin do live.
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