Battle of Copenhagen song

Apr 10, 2016, 11:18 PM

I saw the score for a song in the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth and wanted to know what it sounded like. Here is the answer.

Full title of the score is “A new song on the glorious defeat of the Danish fleet off Copenhagen by the British fleet under Sir Hyde Parker & Admiral Nelson on the 2ᵈ of April 1801 — Written and compos’d by an officer of distinguish’d rank in His Majesty’s Navy”. Evidently brevity was not a thing in those days …