Came the cry from all the crew
"The boats be smashed! How are we all then to be saved?
They are stove in through and through!"
"Oh, are ye brave and hardy collier-men
The Captain's gig still lies before ye whole and sound
It shall carry all o' we."
(Here we go!)
[Chorus]
He was the Captain of the Nightingale
Twenty-one days from Clyde in coal