Annotation:Return of the Admiral (The)

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X:212 T:The Return of the Admiral O:No 212 Page 104 William Clarke of Feltwell Z:Transcribed by David Dolby 2010 M:4/4 L:1/8 N:In m.s. the 5th note bar 5 is ambiguous - could be E or F#. K:G "Segue"G2|BBdd gddg|fedcB3d|ecced2Bd|cdBcA3d| d^cBAf2dd|fd^cAf3f|fgBe efAd|d^cBAf3f| fgBe efAd|d^cfeHd3d|cBcA Bdg2|fefd g3g| g>gg>g gdd>d|c_BAG HD2dd|dedB cdcA| Bdgf He2Hf2|gfgf gddB|Aedc B3d|gfed fedc|BAGFG2||

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Henry Phillips in character as Count der Tiemar in "Amilie, or, The Love Test" by William Michael Rooke, 1839 lithograph.

RETURN OF THE ADMIRAL, THE. English, Air (4/4 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). One part. "Return of the Admiral" is a song with words by English poet Bryan Waller Procter (1801-1876) under the nom-de-plume 'Barry Cornwall', set to music (and sung on the stage) in 1835 by wikipedia:Henry_Phillips_(singer) (1787-1874). The first verse of that poem goes:

How gallantly, how merrily, we ride along the sea!
The morning is all sunshine, the wind is blowing free;
The billows are all sparkling, and bounding in the light,
Like creatures in whose sunny veins the blood is running bright.
All nature knows our triumph-strange birds about us sweep-
Strange things come up to look at us, the masters of the deep.
In our wake, like any servant, follows even the bold shark-
Oh, proud must be our admiral of such a bonny barque.

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