Favorite Song

[captjustinkase]

OK so thanks to all of these posts I have a lot of songs that I am going to be listening too over the weekend.

My list is unfortunately a little more mainstream.

The Legend of Davy Jones (Forty Fathoms Deep) - David Jeremiah

Whale of a tale - Kirk Douglas (From 20,000 Leagues)

The Beast of Pirate's Bay - Voltaire

This Ship's Going Down - Voltaire

Cruel Mistress - Flogging Molly

My Kids are huge Captain Bogg and Salty fans, especially the Pegleg Tango and Sail with the Kings

Also they consider Muppet Treasure Island definate must listen to Pirate Music, and I will guilty admit a small love of Tim Curry's song in the movie.

[Bright]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skWOB3se68Q

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 mate was fixed by the bosun's pike

The bosun brained with a marlinspike

And cookey's throat was marked belike

It had been gripped by fingers ten;

And there they lay, all good dead men

Like break o'day in a boozing ken

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of the whole ship's list

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

The skipper lay with his nob in gore

Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore

And the scullion he was stabbed times four

And there they lay, and the soggy skies

Dripped down in up-staring eyes

In murk sunset and foul sunrise

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Ten of the crew had the murder mark!

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead

Or a yawing hole in a battered head

And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red

And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes

Looking up at paradise

All souls bound just contrawise

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of 'em good and true'

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

There was chest on chest of Spanish gold

With a ton of plate in the middle hold

And the cabins riot of stuff untold,

And they lay there that took the plum

With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb

While we shared all by the rule of thumb,

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

More was seen through a sternlight screen

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Chartings undoubt where a woman had been

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot

With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot

And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot

Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid

That dared the knife and took the blade

By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

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.

We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight

With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight

And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,

With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well

And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell

Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Edited October 12, 2009 by Bright

[Bright]

I don't know if yer be familiar with Cast In Bronze, *he performs at various renfaires* but he does a wonderful version o' drunken sailor that I be lovin.

Polly

[Captain Robert Rackam]

Ok, First there is a great collection available on iTunes called Rogues Gallery that contains Mingulay Boat song by Richard Thompson (also check out his album 1000 years of popular music), My Son John by John C. Reilly, Blood Red Roses by Sting, and Lowlands Low by Bryan Ferry among many other great recordings. After that I really Love a band that plays at the Renn Faire here in Maryland called the Pyrates Royale. Search for them them they have a websit wher one can purchase music. Here's a list of some of my favorite songs by them.

Essequibo River

Heart of Oak

High Barbary

Being a Pirate

You Don't Know Jack

Also, if you like Metal there's this German band from the 80's called Running Wild they are all over Youtube many of their songs are Piratey but myself I like "Under Jolly Roger."

And of Course "A Pirate Looks At Forty"

[Bright]

[Bright]

The Bold Marauder

[Badger]

Yurrhhh, Some o' me many favorites....

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Black Spot hurrhurrhurr

Russian (Soviet) Anthem as played in th' beginning o' Hunt for Red October.

[Capt Thighbiter]

The closing tune in Master and Commander,

Boccarini's " Night Music on the Streets Of Madrid"

I get the chills every time listening to it, Hell I get the chills when WE play it!

Edited December 4, 2009 by Capt Thighbiter

[Silent]

I've been hooked on Rye Whiskey by The Pirates Charles

[Quartermaster James]

Right now, it's that Mini Sirloin Burger jingle from Jack In The Box.

I love that tune!

[Captain McCool]

The closing tune in Master and Commander,

Boccarini's " Night Music on the Streets Of Madrid"

I get the chills every time listening to it, Hell I get the chills when WE play it!

This is one of my very favorite pieces too. It suited the film so well, and it was even mentioned in one or more of the books, if I'm not mistaken. Or if not the exact piece, at least Boccarini in general.

I'd love to hear you blokes perform it!

As for favorite pirate song in general though, that's really bloody difficult.

Some favorites off the top of me head:

"Tobacco Island," by Flogging Molly

"Mingulay Boat Song" (not traditional, as many people think, but still powerful and beautiful)

"Mal's Song," a Firefly filk song that's pretty much brilliant

"The Mariner's Revenge Song," by the Decemberists (who freaking ROCK. Favorite. Band. Ever. Period.)

"A Cautionary Song," Also by The Decemberists (this one's twisted and brilliant)

"The Island: Come and See/The Landlord's Daughter/You Won't Feel the Drowning," also by the Decemberists

"Shanty for the Arethusa," Decemberists again (are we noticing a theme here?)

And lately I've been really hooked on this local band from Boulder, CO, called the Widow's Bane (http://www.myspace.com/widowsbane), who are actually a Zombie band, and they have a really cool pirate-zombie song called "Haul Away Boys." I HIGHLY recommend checking them out. Very talented.

Hell, there are so many others though. This is why I've become a Bilgemunky Radio addict. Never enough Pirate music.

Edited December 21, 2009 by Captain McCool

[Bright]

Now ayes not bees fond of wrap but I like Captain Dan and shanties were the working mans warp back then but this bees more for the seasonal occasion ;-}

Edited December 21, 2009 by Bright

[Captain McCool]

Now ayes not bees fond of wrap but I like Captain Dan and shanties were the working mans warp back then but this bees more for the seasonal occasion ;-}

Heh, I especially like this one, as it involves LEGO pirates! Woo!

[Bilgewater Browne]

There be many tunes, but the one I recall transporting me to the deck of a ship was the great Jimmy Buffett's, "Son of a Son of a Sailor.": "Haul the sheet in, As we ride on the wind, That our forefathers harnessed before us." I could taste the salt air and feel the roll of the deck the first time I heard that lyric....

[silas thatcher]

katrina and the waves walking on sunshine

[lady constance]

the grudge by tool

or

let my love open the door by pete townsend

or there is a pirate rock band called " FLOGGING MOLLY".... they are pretty good pirate rock and roll...

[Captain McCool]

I'm not sure I'd entirely classify Flogging Molly as a "Pirate" rock band, but they definitely do some pirate songs. Kickass pirate songs too. I really dig those guys.

If you like Flogging Molly, totally check out The Dreadnoughts. They have a somewhat similar sound. They classify themselves as a "Shanty Punk" band. Which is, by definition, awesome.

Here's their Myspace page:

http://www.myspace.c...itydreadnoughts

Edited February 9, 2010 by Captain McCool