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Andrew Rose, or Captain Rodgers' Cruelty

from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs by Paul Carbuncle

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Andrew Rose, the British sailor,
Now to you his woes I’ll name.
’Twas on the passage from Barbados
Whilst on board the Martha Jane.

Wasn’t that most cruel usage,
Without a friend to interpose?
How they whipped and mangled,
Gagged and strangled
The British sailor Andrew Rose.

’Twas on the quarter-deck they laid him,
Gagged him with an iron bar.
Wasn’t that most cruel usage
To put upon a British tar?
’Twas up aloft the captain sent him,
Naked beneath the burning sun,
Whilst the mate did follow after,
Lashing him till the blood did run.

Wasn’t that most cruel usage,
Without a friend to interpose?
How they whipped and mangled,
Gagged and strangled
The British sailor Andrew Rose.

The captain gave him stuff to swallow,
Stuff to you I will not name,
While the crew got sick with horror
Whilst on board the Martha Jane.
’Twas in a water-cask they put him,
Seven long days they kept him there.
When loud for mercy Rose did venture
The captain swore no man go there.

Wasn’t that most cruel usage,
Without a friend to interpose?
How they whipped and mangled,
Gagged and strangled
The British sailor Andrew Rose.

For twenty days they did ill-use him
Till into Liverpool they arrived.
The judge he heard young Andrew’s story:
‘Captain Rodgers, you must die.’
So come all ye friends and near relations,
Come all ye friends and interpose.
Never treat a British sailor
Like they did young Andrew Rose.

Wasn’t that most cruel usage,
Without a friend to interpose?
How they whipped and mangled,
Gagged and strangled
The British sailor Andrew Rose.

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from A Life Spent Staring At Chairs, released April 9, 2018
Traditional song, arranged by Paul Carbuncle.

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