High Barbary

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Look ahead, look astern 
Look the weather and the lee, 
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we, 
I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee, 
A sailing down all on the Coasts of High Barbary 

O, are you a pirate or a man-o-war? cried we 
Blow high! Blow low! 
And so sailed we, 
On low lee is some harbour and along the side of you, 
A sailing down all on the Coast of High Barbary 

And raking your topsails and along the side we'll go, 
Blow high! blow low! 
And so sailed we, 
On low lee is some harbour and along the side of you,
A sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbary 

For broadside, for broadside 
We fought all on the main; 
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we 
Until at last a frigate shot the pirate's mast away. 
A sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbary 

Look ahead, look astern 
Look the weather and the lee, 
Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we, 
I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee, 
A sailing down all on the Coasts of High Barbary