On board the noble Ann, twenty-seventh of March,
from Shields to Greenland we set sail, [1780]
The wind it blowing fair with
a sweet and pleasant gale.
We had not sail-ed many days
when Fair Isle we did see,
But on the next day morning,
in with a privateer fell we.
"The Greenland Men," Oxford Book of Sea Songs, Palmer
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