The Flowers Of Bermuda chords by Stan Rogers

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He was the captain of the Nightingale
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Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
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He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
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When he died on the North Rock shoal

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Just five short hours from Bermuda
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In a fine October gale
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O there came a cry, " Oh, there be breakers dead ahead
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From the collier Nightingale

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No sooner had the captain brought her round,
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Then came a rending crash below
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Hard on her beam ends groaning, went the Nightingale
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And overside her mainmast goes

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"O captain are we all for drowning,"
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Came a cry from all the crew
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"The boats be smashed! How are we all then to be saved?
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They are stove in through and through

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O are ye brave and hardy collier men
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Or are you blind and cannot see
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O the captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound
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And it shall carry all of we

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He was the captain of the Nightingale
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Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
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He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
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When he died on the North Rock shoal

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But when the crew were all assembled
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And the gig prepared for sea
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'Twas seen there were but eighteen places to be manned
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And nineteen mortal souls were we

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But cries the captain," now do not delay
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Nor do you spare a thought for me
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My duty is to save you all now if I can
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see ye return quick as can be

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He was the captain of the Nightingale
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Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
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He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
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When he died on the North Rock shoal

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Oh, there be flowers in Bermuda
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Beauty lies on every hand
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And there be laughter ease and drink there for every man
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But there is no joy for me

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For when we reached the wretched Nightingale
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What an awful sight was plain
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O the captain, drowned, was tangled in the mizzen chains
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Smiling bravely beneath the sea

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He was the captain of the Nightingale
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Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal
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He could smell the flowers of Bermuda in the gale
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When he died on the North Rock shoal