When the captain com’d for to hear on’t, He werry much applauded her for what she had done; And quickly he made her the first lieutenant Of the gallant _Thunder Bomb_. _Fol lol, etc._ _CAWSAND BAY._ In Cawsand Bay lying, The Blue Peter flying, And all hands turned up for the anchor to weigh; There came a young lady, As fresh as a May day, And modestly hailing, this damsel did say: ‘I want my young man, there, Do you hear! bear a han’ there, To hoist me on board, or to send him to me; His name’s Henry Grady, And I am a lady Come off to prevent him from going to sea.’ The captain, his honour, When he looked upon her, Ran down the ship’s side for to help her aboard; Says he with emotion, ‘What son of the ocean Can thus be looked after by Helena Ford?’ The lady made answer: ‘That there is my man, sir, I’ll make him as fine and as free as a lord;’ ‘No, no,’ says the cap’n, ‘That can’t very well happen, I’ve got sailing orders; you, sir, stay on board.’ ‘Avast,’ says the lady, ‘Don’t you heed him, Henry Grady, He once was your captain, but now you’re at large; You shan’t stay aboard here, For all that man’s order;’ Then out of her bosom she hauled his discharge. Says the captain, says he now: ‘I’m blowed, but he’s free now’; Says Jack, ‘Let old Weatherface keep all my clothes;’ On shore then he steered her, And the lads they all cheered her, But the captain was jealous, and looked down his nose. Then she got a shore tailor To rig her young sailor In tight Nankin breeches, and a blue long-tailed coat; And he looked like a squire For all to admire, With a dimity handkerchief tied round his throat. And they had a house greater Than e’er a first-rater, With servants in uniform handing the drink; And a garden to go in Where the flowers was a-blowin’, The daisy, the buttercup, lily and pink. And he got education Quite fit for his station, For you know we are never too old for to learn; And his shipmates they found him, With his young ones around him, All chips of the old block, from the stem to the stern. _GENERAL CAMPBELL._ It was in the month of April, upon the fourteenth day, This expedition did embark to cross the raging sea; Our fleet being well prepared, our anchors we did weigh, To sail against the Burmese to show them British play.