The Pentangle - Lord Franklin

      
 
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 I was homeward bound one night on the deep
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 Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
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 I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
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 Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
 
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 With a hundred seamen he sailed away
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 O'er frozen oceans in the month of May
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 To seek a passage around the pole
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 Where we poor seamen must sometimes go
 
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 Through cruel hardships they mainly strove
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 Their ship on mountains of ice was drove
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 Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
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 Was the only one that ever came through
 
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 In Baffin's Bay where the whale fishes blow
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 The fate of Franklin no man may know
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 The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
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 Lord Franklin alone with his sailors does dwell
 
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 And now my body it gives me pain
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 For my long lost Franklin I would cross the main
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 Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
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 To know on earth that my Franklin does live