6
Some took their hats, and some took their caps,
All for to stop her watery leaks.
She was sinking, etc.
7
They took him up by their ship-side,
They sewed him in an auld cow’s-hide,
Left him sinking, etc.
Motherwell sent this copy to C. K. Sharpe in a letter dated October 8, 1825, in which he says: I also send rather a curious song, which perchance you may have seen, entitled ‘The Turkish Galley,’ the air of which pleased me much. But as I learn there are two other different sets of the words more complete than my copy, and with different airs, I shall defer sending the musick till I can send also that which belongs to the other copies.
g.