Ander Bardeen- Prescott (NE) c. 1880 Pound
[From Southern Folklore Quarterly - Volume 2 - Page 206; University of Florida, Alton Chester Morris, Southeastern Folklore Society - 1938.
R. Matteson 2016]
Ander Bardeen- From Professor Russell Prescott of the Nebraska College of Agriculture. He had it from his father, who learned it from his stepfather, who came to Nebraska from the neighborhood of Enniskillen in northern Ireland about 1880.
There were three brothers in Scotland did dwell,
Three loving brothers were they,
And they did cast lots to see which of them,
Would go robbing around the south sea.
The lot it fell on Ander Bardeen,
The youngest of the three,
And he did maintain his other two brothers,
And went robbing around the south sea.
He had not sailed on a cold winter's night
Till a ship he did spy.
It was sailing far off, it was sailing far off,
And at length it came sailing close by.
"Who's there, who's there?" cried Ander Bardeen;
"Who's there that sails so nice?"
"We are the rich vessels from old London shore
And my friends, I say, let us pass by."
"O no, O no," cried Ander Bardeen,
"The thing it cannot be,
Your vessels I'll take, your cargo too,
And your men I will drown in the sea."
And now King George that held the throne,
An awful tale did hear,
That all his rich vessels were taken
And all of his jolly men drowned.
"Go build a ship, go build it quick,
Go build it tight and strong,
And put on board young Captain Joe Stuart
To take the ship's command."
He had not sailed on a cold winter's night
Till a ship he did spy.
It was sailing far off, it was sailing far off,
And at length it came sailing close by.
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