by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Farewell My Trim‑built Wherry
Language: English
Then farewell, my trim-built wherry, Oars and coat and badge, farewell, Never more at Chelsea ferry Shall your Thomas take a spell. But to hope and peace a stranger, In the battle's heat I'll go. Where expos'd to every danger, Some friendly ball may lay me low. Then mayhap when homeward steering, With the news my messmates come, Even you the story hearing, With a sigh may cry "Poor Tom!"
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Charles Dibdin (1745 - 1814), "Farewell My Trim-built Wherry" [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Don Taylor
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70