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Child Ballad #286

These lyrics as performed by Dan Milner on Irish Pirate Ballads and other Songs of the Sea by Smithsonian Folkways. The Clancy Brothers also did a popular version.

    Lowlands Low, The

    by PJ McCall
    Dunmore we quitted,
    Michaelmas gone by,
    Cow hides and wool,
    and live car- go
    Twenty young Wild Geese
    Ready fledged to fly
    Sailing for the Lowlands Low

    Chorus
    The Lowlands Low
    The Lowlands Low
    Sailing for the Lowlands Low

    Shaun Poer's the skipper,
    From the church of Crook
    Piery keeps log for his father
    Crew all from Bannow,
    Fethard and The Hook
    Sailing for the Lowlands Low

    Chorus

    whistle over verse and chorus

    These twenty Wild Geese
    Gave Queen Anne the slip.
    Crossing to Lewey in Flanders
    He and Jack Malbrook
    Both are in a grip
    Sailing for the Lowlands Low

    Chorus
    Close lay a rover
    Off the Isle of Wight,
    Either a Salee or Saxon
    Out through a sea mist
    We bade them good night,
    Sailing for the Lowlands Low

    Chorus

    whistle over verse and chorus

    Ready with priming
    We'd our galliot gun
    Muskets and pikes in good order
    Should we be riddled
    Captives would be none
    Death! or else the Lowlands Low

    Chorus

    Pray, holy Brendan,
    Turk nor Algerine,
    Dutchman nor Saxon may sink us
    We'll bring Geneva
    Sack and Rhenish wines
    Safely from the Lowlands Low

    Chorus x2

    fiddle and whistle over verse and chorus x2