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The Captain's Apprentice

from So Slowly, Slowly Got She Up by Elle Osborne

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A boy to me was bound apprentice
because his parents were so poor
I took him form St James's workhouse
All for to sail on the Spanish shore

One day, this boy he did offend me
yet nothing to him did I say
But straight way to my yardarm I dragged him
And kept him there until the very next day

His hands and feet they fell toward me
His arms and legs hung down likewise
And with my marlin spike I killed him
Because I could not bare to hear his cries

Twas then my men they did reject me
because that i` had done such wrong
And in my cabin, they close confined me
And bound me down in irons strong

To London town they then did bring me
And here lay I condemned to die
If I had by my men been ruled
It might have saved the poor boy's life, and mine

You captains bold, who sail the ocean
And have got servants to wait on thee
I beg you never, never ill treat them
For you plainly see it's been the death of me

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from So Slowly, Slowly Got She Up, released December 27, 2014
Elle Osborne - vocals

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