It was the fifteenth of September, how we’ll I do remember,
I nearly broke my poor old mother’s heart,
For I shipped with Captain Nipper in a big four masted clipper
Bound away down south for foreign parts.

CHORUS

And the wind began to blow, and the ship began to roll,
And the devil of a hurricane did blow – Oh my oh!
It nearly knocked the stuffing from the good ship Ragamuffin
And we thought to the bottom we should go./

Extrait de « Captain Nipper » chant traditionnel de marins anglais.