The Stowaway
Jon Wilks
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From Liverpool across the Atlantic A big ship was sailing the deep The stars shining brightly above us And the water beneath us asleep Not a bad-tempered mariner amongst us And a jollier crew never sailed Though the first mate's a bit of a savage A fine seaman as ever man hailed One day he comes up from below deck And he's grasping a lad by the arm A poor little ragged young urchin That ought to have been with his ma And the mate asks the boy pretty roughly How he dared for to be stowed away He's cheating the owners and captain It's passage and board without pay "My step-father brought me on board sir When nobody else was on board And he hid me away down the stairs there For to keep me he could not afford And he told me the big ship would take me To Halifax town oh so far He said, "Remember the Lord is your father Who lives where the good angels are" That's a lie, that's a lie, not your father But one of the big skulkers here Some milk-hearted, soft-headed sailor Tell the truth now or die, do you hear? Then that pair of blue eyes bright and winning Clear and shining with innocent youth Looks up at the mate's bushy eyebrows And says, "Sir, I've been telling the truth" Then the mate pulled a watch from his pocket As though he was drawing a knife "If in five minutes' time you don't speak, lad Here's a rope and goodbye to your life Three minutes had gone by in silence Says the mate then, "Speak lad, say your say" And the boy's eyes are filling with teardrops And he faltering says, "May I pray?" Then soft came the first words, "Our father" Low and clear from the little lad's lips But low, they were heard like a trumpet By every man on that ship Each word of that prayer that he went through Through "forever and ever amen" Not for all the bright gold in the Indies I would not have heard them again Off his feet was the lad sudden lifted And clasped to the mate's rugged chest And his husky voice muttered, "God bless you" And his lips to his forehead he pressed "You believe me now?" then says the youngster "Believe you?" he kissed him once more "You'd have laid down the life for the truth, lad I believe you from now evermore"
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