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Will She Ever Sail Again?
Will she ever sail again - that clipper sleek and fine?
Built at Dumbarton on the Clyde in eighteen sixty nine.
Will she ever sail again - to Sydney or Shanghai?
Fully crewed and stored and then - with sails set full and by.
Will she ever sail again - that ship with perfect line?
Or will young Nannie chase Tam then - for all the rest of time?
Will she ever sail again - under a Moodie, Woodget or Moore?
With a crew of twenty one or so - but work for many more!
Will she ever sail again - that clipper sleek and fine?
A faster sailing ship than her has seldom crossed the Line!
Will she ever sail again - or forever stay?
Hard aground on Greenwich Pier - forever and a day!
Will she ever sail again - to Stormalong Forty South?
From Tristan to the Circular Quay - and back to the old Thames
Will she ever sail again - where there
Or will Linton
Will she ever sail again - or forever stay?
Hard aground on Greenwich Pier - forever and a day?
Shades of Tam O
May she always sail again - behind Nannie - that fair young witch.
Will she ever sail again - that ship with perfect line?
Looked at from bowsprit on and then - from aft - she
Will she ever sail again - that ship I love so true?
For now she
Will she ever sail again - that ship that
Brought home to Greenwich on the Thames in nineteen fifty three?
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