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We were homeward bound one night on the deep |
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Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep |
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I dreamed a dream and I thought it true |
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Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew |
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With 100 seamen he sailed away |
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To the frozen ocean in the month of May |
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To seek a passage around the pole |
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Where all poor sailors do sometimes go. |
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Through cruel hardships they vainly strove |
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Their ships on mountains of ice was drove |
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Only the Eskimo with skin his canoe |
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Was the only one that ever came through |
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In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow |
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The fate of Franklin no man may know |
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The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell |
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And Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell |
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And now my burden it gives me pain |
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For my Lord Franklin I'd sail the main |
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Ten thousand pounds I would freely give |
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To know Lord Franklin, and where he is. |
