A ship I've got in the north country called the Golden Vanity
  And I fear it will be taken by the spanish galalie
  
  To the captain spoke the cabin boy "What's in for me if I destroy
  The Spanish galley on the sea as we sail by the lowlands low?"
  The captain spoke to the cabin boy "More than you can handle,son.
  Your own ship you'll get with a crew on board
  As we sail by the lowlands low"
  
  And we sail by the lowlands low
  
  At night the boy bared his breast and sprang
  Into the sea with his heart in his hand
  He swam to the spanish galleon as she lay by the lowlands low
  Some were playing cards, some were playing dice
  He surprised them all with his whispering knive
  Flames were dancing in broken eyes
  As they burned by the lowlands low
  
  The cabin boy returned to the labour side he said
  "Captain, take me in! I'm drifting with the tide!"
  "Your courage is only exeeded by your foolishness!" he replied,
  "No one is getting rich today by the lowlands low"
  
  "The burning spanish galleon is yours to own, my son.
  It was a pleasure cheating you and don't you forget to go
  Down on your ship!" the cabin boy kept yelling till he was gone.
  He drowned by the lowlands low