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Harkee, Boys! I’ll tell you of the torrid, Spanish Main,

Where the tarpons leap and tumble in the silvery ocean plain,

Where the wheeling condors circle; where the long-nosed ant-bears sniff

At the food the Jackie “caches” in the Aztec warrior’s cliff.

Oh! Hurray for the deck of a galleon stout, Hurray for the life on the sea, Hurray! for the cutlass; the dirk; an’ th’ pike; Wild rovers we will be.

Harkee, Boys! I’ll tell you of the men of Morgan’s band,

Of Drake and England—rascals—in the palm-tree, tropic land.

I’ll tell you of bold Hawkins, how he sailed around the Horn.

And the Manatees went chuck! chuck! chuck! in the sun-baked, lazy morn.

Oh! Hurray for the deck of a galleon stout, Hurray for the life on the sea, Hurray! for the cutlass; the dirk; an’ th’ pike; Wild rovers we will be.

Harkee, Boys! You’re English, and you come of roving blood,

Now, when you’re three years older, you must don a sea-man’s hood,

You must turn your good ship westward—you must plough towards the land

Where the mule-train bells go tink! tink! tink! and the bending cocoas stand.

Oh! You will be off on a galleon stout, Oh! You will be men of the sea, Hurray! for the cutlass; the dirk; an’ th’ pike; Wild rovers you will be.