Oh it's of a ship and a ship of fame   Launched off the stocks, bound to sail the main   With one hundred and fifty brisk young men   Well picked and chosen every one   And william glenn was the captain's name   He was a fine and a tall young man   As fine a sailor as sailed the sea   And we were sailing to new barbary      On the first of april, then we set sail   Blessed with a fine and a prosperous gale   And we were bound for new barbary   With all of our whole ship's company   We hadn't been sailing a league or two   Til all of our whole ship's jovial crew   They all fell sick but 63   As we were sailing to new barbary      One night the captain then he did dream   A voice came to him and said to him   "prepare yourself and your company   For tomorrow night you must lie with me"   This woke the captain in a terrible fright   It being the third watch of the night   And aloud for the bosun then he did call   And to him told his secrets all      "bosun" he said "it grieves my heart   To think I've played a villain's part   A man I slew in staffordshire   And all for the sake of his lady fair   And of the ghost of that I am afraid   That has in me such terror bred   So keep the secret within your breast   And pray to the lord that he gives you rest"      We hadn't been a sailing a league but three   Til raging grew the roaring sea   There rose a tempest up in the skies   Which did our seamen much surprise   And the main mast sprung by the break of day   Which made our rigging all but to give way   And did our seamen much afright   The terrors of that awful night      And then the bosun he did declare   That the captain was a murderer   This so enraged the whole ship's crew   That overboard our captain threw   Our treacherous captain he being gone   Immediately there came a calm   And the winds abated and so did the sea   And we went sailing to new barbary      And when we came to the spanish shore   Our good little ship for to repair   The people there were amazed to see   Our dismal case and such misery   Now seamen all wherever you may be   I pray you take a warning from me   As you love life won't you have care   And never go sailing with a murderer