Music Midi CD - Tak bylo (1987-1992) CD - Sea Songs & Shanties MC - Niech zabrzmi piesn
Jan Rebec

Polish words:Jerzy Rogacki
Music: "Jan Rebec"

Ktory z Holendrow najlepiej sie bil?
Skipper Jan Rebec!
Kto dla zeglarzy postrachem byl?
Skipper Jan Rebec!

    Yaw, yaw - Precz z hamakow!
    Yaw, yaw - Won na deck!
    Yaw, yaw - bo cie dorwie skipper Jan Rebec!
Kto pierwszy herbate przywiozl z Chin
I opchnal ja slono w Karolinie?
    Yaw, yaw - Precz z hamakow!...
A kiedy zdobyl wlasny ship,
to nie dorownal mu juz nikt.
    Yaw, yaw - Precz z hamakow!...
Kto trzy razy w roku sie myl,
A wiecej, niz wazyl, piwa pil?
    Yaw, yaw - Precz z hamakow!...
W kazda noc cztery panienki mial:
Czerwona, czarna, zolta i biala!
    Yaw, yaw - Precz z hamakow!...

"Jan Rebec" - in February 1987 Ian Woods sang this song for the first time in Poland. By June that year we were already performing it together with him in Bristol with alternate verses in Polish and in English. This is a contemporary song in the style of a pumping shanty. The author was a late friend of Ian's. Unfortunately we do not know his name.

Music Midi CD - Tak bylo (1987-1992) CD - Sea Songs & Shanties MC - Niech zabrzmi piesn