Hearts of Oak

This is an Anglish oversetting of the words to Reverend Rylance's 1809 take on the song Hearts of Oak.

= Song Words = (Ferse One)
 * When Alfred our king drove the Dane from this land
 * He seeded an oak with his own kingly hand
 * And he for heaven to hallow the tree
 * As a for England the queen of the sea

(Chorus)
 * Hearts of oak are our ships
 * Merry tars are our men
 * We always are ready, steady boys, steady
 * We fight and we again and again

(Ferse Two)
 * The sapling shot up and stuck fast to the ground
 * Withstood all that bellowed and wound
 * And still was it seen then with fresh starkness to shoot
 * When the blood of our had wettened its root

(Ferse Three)
 * But the worms of sullying had eaten their way
 * Through bark till a Wardle had swept them away
 * He has sworn no such our tree shall give rest
 * And our kinfolk soon shall have uprooted the nest

(Ferse Four)
 * whose lowly Europe bemoans
 * Yon brood of who sit on her thrones
 * Shall look on our homeland and shall shiver with awe
 * Where a son of the has bowed to the law

(Ferse Five)
 * Now long live the Briton, who to make thrive
 * The heartmood which Britons seld felt was alive
 * And his name shall be carved while of freedom we sing
 * On the oak that was seeded by Alfred our king