Brave Benbow ...

For reasons explained in earlier posts, St. Anley is currently unable to play any musical instruments.
(OK, there are those who are relieved about that!)

So, he found some free music software called Audacity. It's rather good, but a better microphone would help.
He has been experimenting with multi-tracking. Hear this ...

Alright ... that's 'work in progress'. 

 

So, who was Admiral Benbow?

 

He appeared thus ...

 

Admiral John Benbow, 1653 - 1702

He was an officer in the British Royal Navy who, during the War of the Spanish Succession, engaged with a French squadron commanded by Admiral Jean du Casse during August, 1702.
Two of Benbow's captains: Kirkby and Wade, declined to take part in the action. They were subsequently convicted and executed for cowardice.
Benbow received a leg-wound during the battle and died in Jamaica three months later from 'melancholia'.

There are accounts that he was a drunken, dissolute and abrasive individual, but he must have done something good to be so commemorated in song.