Spanish Ladies “Farewell and Adieu” Hi everybody…you are welcome to Download a Free Mp3 of this song from my Facebook page here: www.facebook.com Spanish Ladies is an old English Naval song..lyrics and info below. Comments welcome…thanks for watching. x Please click “subscribe” above this video if you’d like to know about my new uploads. “Spanish Ladies” is a famous traditional Naval song / Sea Shanty. Also known as “Farewell and Adieu to You”. It was apparently a “capstan shanty” which is a song that is sung as the capstan was turned to raise the anchor. The Shanty would have been sung as ships were homeward bound. There is as an American, Canadian and Australian variant of this song with a similar melody. The American version is titled “Yankee Whalermen”, the Canadian version is titled “We’ll Rant And We’ll Roar” and the Australian version is titled “Brisbane Ladies”. Lyrics Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish Ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies of Spain; For we’ve received orders for to sail for ole England, But we hope in a short time to see you again. We will rant and we’ll roar like true British sailors, We’ll rant and we’ll roar all on the salt sea. Until we strike soundings in the channel of old England; From Ushant to Scilly is thirty five leagues. We hove our ship to with the wind from sou’west, boys We hove our ship to, deep soundings to take; ‘Twas forty-five fathoms, with a white sandy bottom, So we squared our main yard and up channel did make. We …