The Royal Admiral
Miss Strickland quotes this ballad in her Lives of the Queens of England, and states that this was the first Jacobite song that was written and set to music.
Let Titus 1 and Patience 2 stir up a commotion,
Their plotting and swearing shall prosper no more;
Now gallant old Jamie commands on the ocean,
And mighty Charles keeps them in awe on the shore.
Jamie the Valiant, the Champion Royal,
His own and the monarchy’s rival withstood;
The bane and the terror of those the disloyal,
Who slew his loved father and thirst for his blood.
York, the great admiral,—Ocean’s defender,
The joy of our navy, the dread of its foes,
The lawful successor,—what upstart pretender
Shall dare, in our isle, the true heir to oppose?
Jamie quelled the proud foe on the ocean,
And rode the sole conqueror over the main;
To this gallant hero let all pay devotion,
For England her admiral sees him again.