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The Happy Sailor 388

Tune: Benjamin Franklin White, 1859
Alto: Miss Minnie Floyd, 1902
Meter: Irregular
Come tell of your ship and what is her name,
O tell me, happy sailor!
Come tell of your Captain and what is His fame,
O tell me, happy sailor!

Chorus:

She’s the old ship of Zion, hallelu! hallelu!
And her captain, Judah’s Lion, hallelujah.