Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Marie la Cordelière, artist - Alan Simon. Album song Songwriter - My British Side, in the genre Иностранный рок
Date of issue: 05.10.2017
Record label: Cherry Red
Song language: English
Marie la Cordelière |
On the tenth' of August 1512 |
We passed the headland west of Saint-Mathieu |
English galleons |
50 strong English galleons |
And so it was that I did see |
The finest ship I’d ever seen |
Marie la Cordelière |
Belle Marie la Cordelière |
She was so fine, such a sight to see |
Sailing high on the summer sea |
And I am proud to say that I have seen |
Belle Marie la Cordelière |
And when the Breton captain he did see |
The English flags out on the reach, he cried |
«Weigh the anchors high and we will fight |
Weigh the anchors high!» |
And the Belle Marie came sailing proud |
200 canons shining on her sides |
15 hundred men prepared to die |
15 hundred men |
Well the battle raged for many’an hour |
Till her decks ran red with blood and we breached her side |
Then the captain cried «Though we may die |
We’ll not surrender her» |
Across the heaving deck he ran |
In each hand a blazing brand he bore |
Into the powder store and he blew her high |
He fired the powder store |