blackjohn Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Follow the link to a discussion about the song Sing a Song of Sixpence and its pirate origins. I'll admit, I thought I had heard them all, but this is a new one on me. Blackjohn My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshuaRed Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Hmph! Well, I was skeptical at first, but the further down the page I got, the more sense it made! It's pretty damn cool, actually. Nice piece of lore. I love lore. My only question is, if a pirate wandered around a coastal village singing this, or sat at his beer-stained table at an ordinary singing this, how many sailors out of every ten do you think "got it"? Of course if a notorious pirate like Blackbeard was in town, word probably spread like wildfire anyway. The other reason I'm still a little skeptical is that the vast majority of recruits simply joined on pirate ships when their previous vessels were captured. Others were pressed against their will. So unless a bad stroke of luck hit and a pirate simply could find the numbers of men needed while at sea, they shouldn't have had to recruit on land. That was something more in keeping with the great buccaneer raids of the 1660s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted October 20, 2004 Author Share Posted October 20, 2004 I was skeptical too, so I found this. My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshuaRed Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 Ah-HAHHH! Good thing we're skeptical. :) But damn I do love the pirate code lore....nice digging John. A double rum for you sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloody_Mary_Bonney Posted October 20, 2004 Share Posted October 20, 2004 well thats cheerful. Anyway i've been told so many thingsabout nersury rymes over the years i just tend to agree with whose ever speaking at the time But why is the rum gone? Save a horse ride a cowboy! Take me away and take me farther, suround me now and hold me like holy My toes are getting pruney Also my head is round that window is square.... My name is Micheal J Kabous and i eat babies! Your toast has been burned and no amount of scraping will remove the black stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Hand Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Hey.... did anyone notice that all three pages...... the first one saying it was true, and the next two saying it was an urban myth....... were all from the SAME site...... www.scopes.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Barbette Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 Hey.... did anyone notice that all three pages...... the first one saying it was true, and the next two saying it was an urban myth....... were all from the SAME site...... www.scopes.com If you read the page that talks about "False Authority Syndrom" it explains that everything in the "www.Snopes.com/lost" area on the site is a fabrication, so even though it looks like they're confirming the legend as true, they're not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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