Текст песни Songs of the Sea Op. 91 (1983 Digital Remaster): V. The Old Superb (Allegro vivace) - Charles Villiers Stanford, Henry Newbolt, Benjamin Luxon/Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/Geoffrey Hughes/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Norman Del Mar & Norman Del Mar

The wind was rising easterly
The morning sky was blue
The straits before us opened wide and free
We looked towards the admiral while high the Peter flew
And all our hearts went dancing like a sea

The French had gone to Martinique with four-and-twenty sail
The Old Superb is old and foul and slow
But the French had gone to Martinique, and Nelson's on their trail
And where he goes the Old Superb must go

So westward ho for Trinidad
And eastward ho for Spain
And ship ahoy a hundred times a day
Round the world if need be
And round the world again
With a lame duck lagging, lagging all the way

The Old Superb was barnacled and green as grass below
Her sticks were only fit for serving grog
The pride of old midshipmen was silent long ago
And long ago they ceased to heave the log

For dear out-of-home she was, and ne'er a beacon port
And nothing save the guns aboard her bright
But Captain Teachey knew the game, and swore to share the sport
For he never yet came in too late to fight

So westward ho for Trinidad
And eastward ho for Spain
And ship ahoy a hundred times a day
Round the world if need be
And round the world again
With a lame duck lagging, lagging all the way

Now up we lads, the Captain cried, for sure the case were hard
If longest out were first to fall behind
Aloft! Aloft! with studding sails, and lash them on the yard
For night and day the trades are driving by

So all day long and all day long behind the fleet we crept
And how we fretted none but Nelson guessed
But every night the Old Superb she sailed while others slept
Till we ran the French to earth with all the rest

Oh, so westward ho for Trinidad
And eastward ho for Spain
And ship ahoy a hundred times a day
Round the world if need be
And round the world again
With a lame duck lagging, lagging all the way