sixteenth notes acending scale: (g a b c d e f g a b C)
 
   C         /G   F/C          C   
 Shall we submit? Are we but slaves?
  C            G/B    D7      G 
 Love comes alike to high and low--
     Am       Em      F        C/E
 Britannia's sailors rule the waves,
      F                  C/G    G7 C
 And shall they stoop to insult? No!
 
  C                     F       C 
 You must submit, you are but slaves;
         G  (D7 G D7 G)
 A lady she! Oho! Oho!
  C                F        C
 You lowly toilers of the waves,      (Fast pulse chords)
                Em         A°     Em (E F#° C#° Ab° Am E° G) then (b c d e f g a b) (Repeat 'Shall we submit', c c c)
 She spurns you all -- I told you so!
 
     Fm          C7                Fm
 My friends, my leave of life I'm taking,
 For oh, my heart, my heart is breaking;
            Eb                Ab
 When I am gone, oh, prithee tell
     (Bbm7|G°        Fm      C7        Fm
 The maid that, as I died, I loved her well! (Repeat)
 (F) 
     F7                  Bbm/F
 Be warned, my messmates all
      Fm      C7    Fm
 Who love in rank above you--
     F7    Bm     C    (< c b c eb e g c e g)
 For Josephine I fall!
 
 Ah! stay your hand -- I love you!
 C7 
 Ah! stay your hand -- she loves you!
  C°                 (C)
 Loves me? Loves you!
 (C    F     F#°  C    D7  C7    /C (tacet)
 Yes, yes -- ah, yes, she loves you!
 
     F      (a ~ g#) F
 Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen,
 For now the sky is all serene;
      C7                F
 The god of day -- the orb of love--
 Has hung his ensign high above,
     C/G     G7     C
 The sky is all ablaze.
       C7               F/C
 With wooing words and loving song,
        C7                F     C7
 We'll chase the lagging hours along,
      F  (~ maj7)
 And if I/we find the maiden coy,
  F#°    G (~ maj7)
 We'll murmur forth decorous joy
     F  Bb   C7    F
 In dreamy roundelays!
  
 
 Intro trios:
 |: (e g c, e g b, e g a, e g g; e e d c# d, g d d c b c) :|
 
        C          G/C
 Let's give three cheers for the sailor's bride
       C    G
 Who casts all thought of rank aside--
 Who gives up home and fortune too
      C     G7      C
 For the honest love of a sailor true!
 
 Am Dm G/B  E9b E7
 Am E G/D D7 G
 D G D7 G
 
 [Repeat verse, end with intro trios once more]
 
         C 
 For a British tar is a soaring soul
     F                   C
 As free as a mountain bird!
 
 His energetic fist should be ready to resist
    G7/B C      G 
 A dictatorial word!
 
 His eyes should flash with an inborn fire,
 His brow with scorn be wrung;
     Am               D         G/B D7      Em
 He never should bow down to a domineering frown,
 A7      G/D      D7       G
 Or the tang of a tyrant tongue.  
 
     Am/G                      G
 His nose should pant and his lip should curl,
      Am/G
 His cheeks should flame and his brow should furl,
      G           D7/A           G/B
 His bosom should heave and his heart should glow,
          C            D7          G                  [8th notes: g b g b, a c a c, bb c# b c, d f G]
 And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow.
  
      C                   
 His foot should stamp and his throat should growl,
      Dm/C                      G7/C 
 His hair should twirl and his face should scowl,
      C           G7/D          C/E
 His eyes should flash and his breast protrude,
       F                 G7        C                 (C/E F G7 C)
 And this should be his customary attitude -- (pose).