[00:11.267]It was homeward bound one night on the deep[00:17.813]Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep[00:22.916]I dreamed a dream and I thought it true[00:30.207]Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew[00:41.508]With one hundred seamen he sailed away[00:47.547]To the frozen ocean in the month of May[00:52.795]To seek a passage around the pole[01:00.104]Where we poor seamen do sometimes go[01:10.626]Through cruel hardships they mainly strove[01:17.134]Their ship on mountains of ice was drove[01:22.685]Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe[01:29.706]Was the only one that ever came through[02:14.986]In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow[02:21.042]The fate of Franklin no man may know[02:26.308]The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell[02:32.831]Lord Franklin along with his sailors do well[02:44.470]And now my burden it gives me pain[02:50.018]For my long lost Franklin I'd cross the main[02:55.126]Ten thousand pounds I would freely give[03:02.608]To say on earth that my Franklin do live