Andrew Battan- Post (MI) 1931 Gardner B w/music
[From Ballads and Songs from Southern Michigan by Gardner and Chickering, 1939.
R. Matteson 2013]
B. "Andrew Battan" - Sung by Mrs.Rachel Post, Belding, Mich., in 1931; learned from her father. A fragment sung in 1931 by Mrs Rachel Post, Belding, who remembered hearing her father sing the whole song.
"Go back, go back," cries Andrew Battan,
"This thing it never can be.
You may be captain all on the dry land,
But I'm captain all o'er the salt sea,
Yes, you may be captain all on the dry land,
But I'm captain all o'er the salt sea."