Golden Vanity Songtext / Lyric

A ship I've got in the north country called the Golden Vanity

And I fear it will be taken by the spanish galalie



To the captain spoke the cabin boy "What's in for me if I destroy

The Spanish galley on the sea as we sail by the lowlands low?"

The captain spoke to the cabin boy "More than you can handle, son.

Your own ship you'll get with a crew on board

As we sail by the lowlands low"






And we sail by the lowlands low

At night the boy bared his breast and sprang

Into the sea with his heart in his hand

He swam to the spanish galleon as she lay by the lowlands low

Some were playing cards, some were playing dice

He surprised them all with his whispering knive

Flames were dancing in broken eyes

As they burned by the lowlands low



The cabin boy returned to the labour side he said

"Captain, take me in! I'm drifting with the tide!"

"Your courage is only exeeded by your foolishness!" he replied,

"No one is getting rich today by the lowlands low"



"The burning spanish galleon is yours to own, my son.

It was a pleasure cheating you and don't you forget to go

Down on your ship!" the cabin boy kept yelling till he was gone.