Annotation:Tack and Tack
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TACK AND TACK. English, Air (2/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Tack and Tack" is one of English songwriter and composer Charles Dibdin's popular sea songs.It begins:
The Yarmouth Roads are right ahead,
'The crew with ardour burning;
Jack sings out as he heaves the lead,
On tack and half-tack turning;
By the dip eleven!
Lash’d in the chains, the line he coils,
Then round his head ‘tis swinging;
And thus to make the land he toils,
In numbers quaintly singing,
By the mark seven!
And now, lest we run bump ashore,
He heaves the lead and sings once more,
Quarter less four!
