Herzogin Cecile
Words and Music Ken Stephens
(Recorded by Lewis, Pint & Dale on Making Waves)
Sailing down the Baltic, where the wreck
mark buoys peal
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Cruising down the Channel where the steamers never yield,
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Beating through the Biscay where the crew, they get no meals -
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Chorus:
The Herzogin Cecile, the Herzogin Cecile,
She is the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Tacking in the Tasman Sea, where the winds upon her steal
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Rolling in the Doldrums where the slightest wind she'll feel
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Roaring down the Forties with her rigging taut as steel
There goes the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Coming down from Labrador, with a load of pine and deal
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Off Tierra Del Fuego where the albatrosses wheel
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
Running eastwards for the Horn, hear her rigging squeal
She is the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
She's the greyhound of the ocean the fastest in her field
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
But she's run upon the "Bob Tail" in the mist to test her
steel
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
She's hard aground on the rocks that have broken her keel
She was the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecile!
