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Sailing down the Baltic where the wreck mark buoys peal,
Cruising down the Channel where the steamers never yield;
Beating through the Biscay where the crew they get no meals,
She's the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
The Herzogin Cecilie, the Herzogin Cecilie,
She is the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
Tacking in the Tasman Sea where the winds upon her steal,
Rolling in the doldrums where the slightest wind she'll feel;
Roaring down the Forties with her rigging taut as steel,
There goes the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
The Herzogin Cecilie, the Herzogin Cecilie,
There goes the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
Coming down from Labrador with a load of pine and deal,
Off Tierra Del Fuego where the albatrosses wheel;
Running eastward for the Horn, hear her rigging squeal,
She is the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
The Herzogin Cecilie, the Herzogin Cecilie,
She is the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
She's the greyhound of the ocean, the fastest in her field,
But she's run upon the Bolt Head in the mist to test her steel;
She's hard aground on the rocks that have broken her keel,
She was the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
The Herzogin Cecilie, the Herzogin Cecilie,
She was the mighty sailing ship, the Herzogin Cecilie!
Herzogin Cecilie was a German four-masted barque (Windjammer), named after German Crown Princess Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin [1886-1954], spouse of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia [1882-1951]. The Herzogin Cecilie wrecked off the coast of England in 1936.
From the Dictionary of Newfoundland English:
Deal (dale) - the wood of red pine (Pinus resinoso); a wide, easy to saw, softwood plank 38-100 mm (~1½-4") thick and over 175 mm (~7") wide.
