The Cruel Ship’s Captain
Bryan Ferry * Track #7 On Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys
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Album Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys
- #1Cape Cod Girls
Baby Gramps
- #2Mingulay Boat Song
Richard Thompson
- #3My Son John
John C. Reilly
- #4Fire Down Below
Nick Cave
- #5Turkish Revelry
Loudon Wainwright III
- #6Bully in the Alley
Three Pruned Men
- #7The Cruel Ship’s Captain
Bryan Ferry
- #8Dead Horse
Robin Holcomb & Akron/Family
- #9Spanish Ladies
Bill Frisell
- #10Coast of High Barbary
Joseph Arthur
- #11Haul Away Joe
Marc Anthony Thompson
- #12Dan Dan
David Thomas
- #13Blood Red Roses
Sting
- #14Sally Brown
Teddy Thompson
- #15Lowlands Away
Rufus Wainwright & Kate McGarrigle
- #16Baltimore Whores
Gavin Friday
- #17Rolling Sea
Eliza Carthy
- #18The Mermaid
Martin Carthy &
- #19Haul on the Bowline
Bob Neuwirth
- #20A Dying Sailor to His Shipmates
Bono
- #21Bonnie Portmore
Lucinda Williams
- #22Shenandoah
Jack Shitt & Richard Greene
- #23The Cry of Man
Mary Margaret O’Hara
- #24Boney Was a Warrior
Jack Shitt
- #25Good Ship Venus
Loudon Wainwright III
- #26Long Time Ago
White Magic
- #27Pinery Boy
Nick Cave
- #28Lowlands Low
Bryan Ferry & ANOHNI
- #29One Spring Morning
Akron/Family
- #30Hog-Eye Man
Martin Carthy
- #31The Fiddler
Richard Greene & Ricky Jay
- #32Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold
Andrea Corr
- #33Fathom the Bowl
John C. Reilly
- #34What Do We Do with a Drunken Sailor
David Thomas
- #35Farewell Nancy
Ed Harcourt
- #36Hanging Johnny
Stan Ridgway
- #37Old Man of the Sea
Baby Gramps
- #38Greenland Whale Fisheries
Van Dyke Parks
- #39Shallow Brown
Sting
- #40The Grey Funnel Line
Jolie Holland
- #41A Drop of Nelson’s Blood
Jarvis Cocker
- #42Leave Her Johnny
Lou Reed
- #43Little Boy Billee
Ralph Steadman & Ed Harcourt & Robyn Hitchcock
The Cruel Ship's Captain by Bryan Ferry
Performed by
Bryan FerryProduced by
Hal WillnerWrited by
TraditionalThe Cruel Ship’s Captain Lyrics
A boy to me was bound apprenticed
Because his parents they were poor
So I took him from St. James' workhouse
All for to sail on the Greenland shore
One day this poor boy he did annoy me
Nothing to him then did I say
But I rushed him to my frozen yardarm
And I kept him there 'til early next day
When his eyes and his teeth hang before me
With his hands and his feet down bowed
And with a tarry gasket there I killed him
For I would not hear his cries below
I would not hear his cries below
Now all you sea captains that navyin' here'
Take a fair advantage by me
Don't abuse your young apprentice boys
Or else its hanged you'd surely be
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The Cruel Ship’s Captain was produced by Hal Willner.