Name: The Wreck of the Association
Duration: P00H04M44S
Description: It's an old song that's always been a favorite in my live shows, even thought they all die! It tells the story of one of the worst shipping disasters in British history. The Parliamentary enquiry that followed led to improvements in navigational aids such as the marine chronometer, and eventually, a better understanding of longitude.

The Wreck of the Association

by Chris Chambers

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It's an old song that's always been a favorite in my live shows, even thought they all die! It tells the story of one of the worst shipping disasters in British history. The Parliamentary enquiry that followed led to improvements in navigational aids such as the marine chronometer, and eventually, a better understanding of longitude.

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The Wreck of the Association

It’s too many miles from the siege of Toulon
To die on the Gilstone Ledge
But two thousand men of the Queens gallant fleet
Are restless and dead in the deep

Oh the wreckers wages
Oh the wreckers wages
Oh the wreckers wages
Oh the wreckers wages

T’was October twenty second seventeen o seven
With Lands End almost in sight
But the mist was closing in and the compass had failed
And the Devils in the rocks and the Gale

Oh the wreckers wages……….

The first down was the Eagle, then Association
Then Romney and the Firebrand
Ah the Western Rocks of Scilly and the ledges thereabouts
Drove Sir Cloudsley Shovells fleet all to rout

Oh the wreckers wages……..

And then next day his body was carried by the ocean
To Porthellick on the Eastern shore
There the wreckers waited for the bodies coming in
They stripped him of his clothing and his ring

Oh the wreckers wages……..

Repeat first verse, and chorus

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released January 1, 2022
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Chris Chambers Leicestershire, UK

Singer / songwriter, indie musician
Songs of love, life and landscape, featuring
Mandolin, dobro, acoustic, electric and lap steel guitar.

Based in Leicestershire, England
Gigs: solo

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