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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 Batavia’s strand
And I hope you’ll come sailing with me

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On the Zeewijk we cut round the great southern cape.
And the sun shone bright in your hair
We’d made it at last, by keel and by mast
To the unwavering roaring forties.

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But too long did we sail in that tempestuous gale,
As the sun shone bright in your hair
And when we ran aground as the ship all but foundered
It was you I held close for safety.

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A crime, a crime! A 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

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The waves are calling us gently my love
And the sun shone bright in your hair
No treasure or gold compares to what I now hold
And the short life we have by the sea

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