Quedah Merchant

from Sisters in Arms by Cosmo Jr

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We got bales of silk
And stuffs of that ilk
Iron and sugar and more

We got opium
(we can get you some!)
And saltpeter in store

Last out of Bengal
Where the songs are strange and troubling
Currents now mingle
And the very ocean's bubbling

Bent to every task
Some are bound to ask
What is all of this for?

Stars direct our course
We fear fate and force
Out in nothingness deep

Bow plows furrows wet
Profit's seeds we set
Sowing maybe to reap

Bad luck off Cochin
From the crow's nest news disturbing
Who's this approachin'?
We -- o! -- loos'ning bowels are curbing

Having now hove to,
What, pray, must we do
If our lives we're to keep?

French passes
Spyglasses
Dread below decks
Maybe flee
Maybe we
May save our necks

Parleying
Inveighing
Yielding at length
They scare us
But spare us
Sapped quite of strength

Drifting in a scow
We got nothing now
We got nothing at all

Nothing; not a sou
Nothing for our new
Happenstance port of call

If you would go there
You'll speed if you're temerarious
Five leagues from nowhere
Cheek by jowl with peoples various

So farewell to you
Fond our fond adieu
May life's joys never pall

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from Sisters in Arms, released September 6, 2018

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