And all her brave seamen drown.
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Bad news, bad news through London street,
Bad news has come to the king,
For all the brave lives of the mariners lost,
That are sunk in the watery main.
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a. A broadside, Catnach, Seven Dials. b. Kidson, Traditional Tunes, p. 31, 1891; from fishermen at Flamborough, Yorkshire. c. Kidson, etc., p. 30; “sung by a very old woman ... about ninety years ago.”
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