The king and his men,
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will well roam.
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never say we die.
Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage...
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green!
The bell has been raised
from it's watery grave...
Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!
Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.
One of the actual Pirate Songs:
The Pirate Song
To the mast nail our flag it is dark as the grave,
Or the death which it bears while it sweeps o'er the wave;
Let our deck clear for action, our guns be prepared;
Be the boarding-axe sharpened, the scimitar bared:
Set the canisters ready, and then bring to me,
For the last of my duties, the powder-room key.
If the sea be denied us, we sweep through the air.
Unshared have we left our last victory's prey;
It is mine to divide it, and yours to obey:
There are shawls that might suit a sultana's white neck,
And pearls that are fair as the arms they will deck.
There are flasks which, unseal them, the air will disclose
Diametta's fair summers, the home of the rose.
I claim not a portion: I ask but as mine
'Tis to drink to our victory - one cup of red wine.
Some fight, 'tis for riches - some fight, 'tis for fame:
The first I despise, and the last is a name.
I fight, 'tis for vengeance! I love to see flow,
At the stroke of my sabre, the life of my foe.
I strike for the memory of long-vanished years;
I only shed blood where another shed tears,
I come, as the lightning comes red from above,
O'er the race that I loathe, to the battle I love.
Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest Pirate Song
The most famous words are from the first four lines of this pirate song are :
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The
Robert Louis Stevenson novel "Treasure Island" was published in 1883.
The words and lyrics of the first line of the pirate song "Fifteen men
on a dead man's chest" are explainable! Dead Man's Chest is a tiny
island that forms part of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean
Sea. Pirate legends of the Caribbean claim that the notorious pirate,
Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ), marooned 15 of his pirate crew on 'Dead
Man's Chest' as a punishment for their mutiny and desertion. All
pirates had their own Pirate Code of Conduct.
Article VII of the Pirate Code agreed by Bartholomew Roberts ( Black
Bart ) and his pirate crew in the Shipboard Articles of 1721 stated:
He that shall desert the ship or his quarters in time of battle
shall be punished by death or marooning
The
Pirate Code of Blackbeard stated that each pirate who was marooned
should be given a cutlass and a bottle of rum. The scenes in the movie
'Pirates of the Caribbean' were therefore based on fact. The pirate
hero, Captain Jack Sparrow, was given a pistol instead of a cutlass
when he was marooned by his pirate shipmates.
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