Too sad !

Souvenirs mélancoliques avec cette antienne de la marine anglaise, reprise en groupe de guitaristes amateurs franco-anglais, du temps où "they were in", à Wiveliscombe, Somerset...

Une petite pensée aux britanniques sensés, qui ont assisté impuissants à cette mégabegie, un peuple entier roulé dans la farine populiste avariée...  au-delà des calculs politiciens à court terme et des fautes originelles de la construction européenne ultra-libérale..








Strike the bell ! (a pumping shanty)

Up on the poop deck,
walking all about
there stands the 2nd mate,
so sturdy and so stout
what he is a’thinking,
he don’t know himself
and we wish that he would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell

CHORUS
strike the bell 2nd mate
and let us go below
look well to windward,
you can see its going to blow
looking at the glass,
you can see that it fell
and we wish that you would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell 

Down on the main deck,
working on the pumps
is the poor larboard watch
wishing for their bunk
looking out to windward 
you can see a mighty swell
and we wish that you would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell

CHORUS
strike the bell 2nd mate
and let us go below
look well to windward,
you can see its going to blow
looking at the glass,
you can see that it fell
and we wish that you would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell

Down in the wheelhouse,
Old Anderson stands
grasping at the helm
with his frost bitten hands
looking cockeyed at the compass,
but the course is clear as, ...well..
and we wish that you would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell

CHORUS
strike the bell 2nd mate
and let us go below
look well to windward,
you can see its going to blow
looking at the glass,
you can see that it fell
and we wish that you would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell

Well, down in his cabin,
our gallant captain stands
looking out the transom
with a spyglass in his hands
what he is a-thinking,
we all know very well
he’s thinking more to shorten sail
then striking the bell

CHORUS
strike the bell 2nd mate
and let us go below
look well to windward,
you can see its going to blow
looking at the glass,
you can see that it fell
and we wish that you would hurry up
and strike, strike the bell