Identify a song from this lyric?

[Capt Thighbiter]

We are trying to identify this song, from Master and Commander, by the lyric sung in the movie, but no luck so far. Any one know the title of this tune?

"Come all you bold young sailors,

A warning take by me

and never leave your happy home

to sail the raging sea"

Thanks mates!

[Tartan Jack]

The quote in Master and Commander seems to be;

"Come all you bold young thoughtless men. A warning take by me. And never leave your happy home. To sail the raging sea"

The links seem to be not to any specific song, I can find through Google:

http://www.freewebs.com/oldshipmate/misc.htm

Here looks to be the best I have found:

http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/displaysong.php?songid=122

Come all you bold young thoughtless men,

A warning take by me;

And think of my unhappy fate

To be hanged upon the tree.

My name is William Corder,

The truth I do declare;

I courted Maria Marten,

Most beautiful and fair.

I promised her I'd marry her,

All on one certain day;

Instead of that I was resolved

To take her life away.

I went unto her father's house

Upon the eighteenth day of May.

'0 come my dearest Ria,

And we'll fix the wedding day.

?If you will meet me at the Red Barn,

As sure as I have life,

I will take you down to Ipswich Town

And there make you my wife.?

He straight went home and fetched his gun,

His pick-axe and his spade;

He went unto the Red Barn,

And there he dug her grave.

With heart so light she thought no harm,

To meet him she did go;

He murdered her all in the barn,

And he laid her body low.

And all things being silent,

They could not take no rest,

Which appeared in her mother?s house

When suckled at her breast.

Her mother had a dreadful dream,

She dreamed it three nights o'er,

She dreamed that her dear daughter

Lay beneath the Red Barn floor.

They sent her father to the barn,

And in the ground he thrust;

And there he found his daughter dear

Lay mingling with the dust.

Come all you young thoughtless men,

Some pity look on me;

On Monday next will be my last,

To be hanged upon the tree.

Maybe these lyrics?

The British Tars

Come all you thoughtless young men,

A warning take by me,

And never [leave] your happy homes,

To sail the raging seas,

For I have ploughed the raging main,

This twenty years and more,

But now I am turned adrift to starve,

Upon my native shore.

When war at first assailed us,

I quickly left my trade,

Our country was in danger,

I flew to lend my aid,

And in my country's service,

Long, long fatigues I bore,

But now I'm turned adrift to starve,

Upon my native shore.

By storms and raging tempests,

Shipwrecked three times I've been,

And many a bloody battle,

Upon the seas I have seen.

I've seen the cannon's glaring flash,

Have heard its murd'rous roar,

Tho' now I'm turned adrift to starve,

Upon my native shore.

The British Seaman's valour,

To all the world is known,

We conquer still where e'er we go,

The action is our own.

The Metor (sic - perhaps Meteor) flag of Haughty Gaul,

Triumphantly we bore,

But now we are turned adrift to starve,

Upon my native shore.

Should hostile fleets e'er venture,

Upon the raging main,

True Hearts of Oak we British Tars,

We'll push to sea again.

And bravely bring their ships to port,

As we have done before.

So help us now while we are in want,

Upon our native shore.

Come pity ye gentle stranger,

A luckless British tar,

In your defence you yet may hurl,

The thunder bolt of war,

Come lend me some kind assistance,

And heaven will bless your store,

For now I'm turned adrift to starve,

Upon my native shore.

Edited June 22, 2009 by Tartan Jack

[Capt Thighbiter]

THanks mate!