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We be three poor mariners - an anonymous 16th Century sailors' song printed in Thomas Ravenscroft's Deuteromelia, 1609. The melody also occurs as a dance tune (variously titled Bransle de Poictou or Gavotte) in a number of French sources, including Arbeau's Orchesography (1589). Richard de Winter: tenor Robin Jeffrey: tenor Peter Willcock: tenor Alison Kinder: recorder Lynda Sayce: recorder Eleanor Cramer: bass viol We be three poor mariners newly come from the seas; We spend our lives in jeopardy while others live at ease. Shall we go dance the round, the round, the round And he that is a bully boy come pledge me on the ground, the ground, the ground. We care not for these martial men that do our states disdain; But we care for those merchant men which do our states maintain. To them we dance this round, a round, a round And he that is a bully boy etc. From our CD They that in Ships unto the Sea down go: Music for the Mayflower https://www.resonusclassics.com/products/they-that-in-ships-unto-the-sea-down-go-music-for-the-mayflower-passamezzo-res10263