A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea

A nautical song, 1837
words by Allan Cunningham
music adapted and arranged by Thomas Walton

The sheet music:

A-Wet-Sheet-and-a-Flowing-Sea – Sheet MusicDownload

Accompaniment:

A_wet_sheet_and_a_flowing_sea – MIDIDownload

Lyrics

  1. A wet sheet and a flowing sea
    And a wind that follows fast
    And fills the white and rustling sail
    And bends the gallant mast
    And bends the gallant mast, my boys
    While, like an eagle free
    Away our good ship flies
    And leaves Columbia on our lea

Chorus
Oh, give me a wet sheet a flowing sea
And a wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast

  1. Oh, for a soft and gentle wind
    I heard a fair one cry
    But give to me the roaring breeze
    And white waves heaving high
    And white waves heaving high, my boys
    The good ship tight and free
    The world of waters is our home
    And merry men are we
  2. There’s tempest in yon horned moon
    And lightning in yon cloud
    And hark the music, mariners
    The wind is piping loud
    The wind is piping loud, my boys
    The lightning flashes free
    While the hollow oak our palace is
    Our heritage the sea

Sung here by Fred Feild: