CHORUS

Oh please love don't cry though they sent us to die

At the edge of the billowing sea

They only gave us one bullet so let's just not pull it

And spend the rest of your life here with me

Oh Pieter, my Pieter you're calling to me

As the sun, shone bright in your hair

There's riches and land, on Batavias strand 

And I hope you'll come sailing with me

CHORUS

On the Zeewijk we cut round the great southern horn

As the sun shone bright in your hair

By our keel and by mast oh we made it at last

To the unwavering roaring forties.

CHORUS

But too long did we sail that tempestuous gale,

As the sun, shone bright in your hair

And when we ran aground, once the ship all but foundered 

It was you I held close for safety

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A crime, a crime! Quartermaster decreed.

The crime of sodomy

We'll leave them behind when we sail on the tide.

And they'll die for their sins by the sea

CHORUS

The waves they are calling us gently my love

As the sun, shone bright in your hair

There's no treasure or gold, compares to who I now hold

And the short life we had by the sea

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