My 2006 Lincolnshire song competition entry, which won second prize.
She once ran full sail, with all her timbers shakingNow we'll drift her in and beach her up for breakingOne last time round Gibraltar Point she's boundHearts of oak run aground…
And it's many the port she's seen, and cargo she's carriedOn a rough and rolling sea and never tarriedBut home she always brought us safe and soundHearts of oak run aground…
A captain and his ship are bound togetherThey steer their course come still or stormy weatherThe winds of fortune blow their fates aroundHearts of oak run aground…
My Nancy was my love and my best friendI tied up safe with her each journey's endWhen she died, my life became unwoundHearts of oak run aground…
I've seen old sailors washed up on the quayThey're restless now they go no more to seaTheir hearts sail with each ship that's outward boundHearts of oak run aground…
Now I see the wrecks lined up along the shoreBefore the sun is set there'll be one moreOne last time I'll haul the ensign downHearts of oak run aground…