Free and Easy

What can you see from the masthead?

Spanish ships a-fishing

What can you see from the masthead?

A Portugee from Newfoundland

Rising up on the breaking wave

Let it carry you over all the sea in the morning

Weigh, hey, and up she rises

Sun is up, the bird's a-wing

And we're sailing free and easy

What can you see from the masthead?

A trading ship from Galway

What does he pay for the passage?

A just reward for the pilot

Rising up on the breaking wave

Let it carry you over all the sea in the morning

Weigh, hey, and up she rises

Sun is up, the bird's a-wing

And we're sailing free and easy

We'll stay at sea when the wind is keen

And wave begin to billow

We'll keep at sea when the wind it fails

And homeward bound we'll row

Where shall we go for a cargo?

We'll run right down to Vigo

And if the Bay shall make a storm

We'll take a look in at Bordeaux

What spy you now from the masthead?

An Algerine on the quarter

What shall we do to greet him?

Acquaint him with our ordnance

Rising up on the breaking wave

Let it carry you over all the sea in the morning

Weigh, hey, and up she rises

Sun is up, the bird's a-wing

And we're sailing free and easy