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I don' tihnk I've ever 'eard 'at one before. Me favorite shantie be Barret's Privateers, I know its not a real pirate shantie, seein as its name after some notorious privateers, but its Canadian and I live across the harbour from Halifax. and what did happen in 1778, I don and gon forgot. :lol:

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I let ye be knowin that me favorites be the Corsairs.....and though it might not be true form...Down Among the Dead Men...is the songs i be listin to every day......Of course right after me playin of Scotland The Brave....

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I'd have to say Pay Me My Money Down, Life of a Sailor & The Old Dun Cow.

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"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty well preserved piece without an even a kiss your hand, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, smelling of powder, shouting ARRRG!!"

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I let ye be knowin that me favorites be the Corsairs.....and though it might not be true form...Down Among the Dead Men...is the songs i be listin to every day......Of course right after me playin of Scotland The Brave....

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Ayuh, Down Among the Dead Men is great stuff. Got a couple of versions, both from Williamsburg. After that, I guess it would be Johnny Jump Up from the Crimson Pirates.

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My favourite's got to be "What Shall we do with the Drunken Sailor", as played by a local garage band- a bass, two guitars, drums, and an accordion! I'll see if I can find a recording- it's wonderful.

Yr. obediant servant*,

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I'm a fan of a piratical version of Spanish Ladies by the Bilge Pumps. Though not exactly a pirate song, I also love Ten Thousand Miles Away.

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We'll rant and we'll sing like true drunken pirates

We'll rant and we'll roll right down to the sea

Until we take every damn ship from old England

From dockside to tavern be thirty-five feet!

She was bigger and faster when under full sail

With a gale on the beam and the seas o'er the rail

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Ayuh, Down Among the Dead Men is great stuff.  Got a couple of versions, both from Williamsburg.  After that, I guess it would be Johnny Jump Up from the Crimson Pirates.

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Yeh know the Crimson Pirates? I were aquainted with em afore I got landocked far away from the good ol' state of New York. Ye'll forgive me if I get a little misty eyed for a moment.

As fer favorite songs...ah too many. I like the Crimson Pirates barrel song(caps off to Don an' Lionel, they're gettin' quite a followin' here) and Granuaille by Kilbrannan. Other than that, I like every traditional tune fer pirates exceptin' the mermaid song. There're only so many times yeh can hear than one afore yeh start vomitin' fish guts.

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Ayuh, Down Among the Dead Men is great stuff. Got a couple of versions, both from Williamsburg. After that, I guess it would be Johnny Jump Up from the Crimson Pirates.

Hawkyns

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Williamsburg, like as in the Communistwealth of Virginia?

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Me all time favorite pirate song is All for me Grog. Whether it be sung by the Jolly Rogers or by my friends 'round the fire at an SCA event. I love a good song about spending all yer loot on drink and women and having to go back out to sea for more loot! :ph34r:

Fair winds and calm seas,

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Captain of the Lusty Lady

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Me favorite song is one that was sung to me by me granddad when I was just a lad. T'is about Andy Bardine. Tho I've found several versions of this song I have yet to find the version he sang. Few of me family even rember the song, much less the tune and the words. Me Aunty Barb sent me a tape recording of him singing it and other songs. Twas made not to long afore he died so it be a rare and valuble treasure to me. The sad or maybe ironic part is that the recording is so old and not of the greates quality that the parts of the song that I have the most trouble remembering are also the parts on the tape that are the hardest to make out. Just me luck. If thar be a kind sole out thar who knows of this song, please let me know, for I be collecting all the versions of it that I can find.

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How did I miss this one?

“Pirates”: Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

”Who’ll make his mark”, the captain cried.

”To the devil drink a toast.

We’ll glut the hold with cups of gold

And we’ll feed the sea with ghosts

I see your hunger for a fortune

Could be better served beneath my flag

If you’ve the stomach for a broadside

Come aboard my pretty boys

I will take you and make you

Everything you’ve ever dreamed.”

”Make fast the guns tonight we sail

when the high tide floods the bay,

cut free the lines and square the yards

get the black flag stowed away

the Turk, the Arab, the Spaniard

will soon have pennies on their eyes

and any other laden fancy

we will take her by surprise

I will take you and make you

Everything you’ve ever dreamed.”

Six days off the Cuban coast when a sail ahead the spied

”A galleon of the treasure fleet,’ the mizzen lookout cried

”Closer to the wind my boys,” the mad-eyed captain roared

”For every man that’s alive tonight will be hauling gold aboard.”

”Spare us,” the galleon begged but mercy’s face had fled

Blood ran from the screaming souls the cutlass harvested

Driven to the quarter deck the last survivor fell

”She’s ours my boys,” the Captain grinned ”and no one left to tell.”

The Captain rose from a silk divan

With a pistol in his fist

And shot the lock from an iron box

And a blood red ruby kissed

”I give you jewelry of turquoise

A crucifix of solid gold

One hundred thousand silver pieces

It is just as I foretold

You... You see there before you everything

You’ve ever dreamed.”

Anchored in an indigo moonlit bay

Gold-eyed ‘round fires the sea thieves lay

Morning... white shells and a pipe of clay

As the wind filled their footsteps

They were far... far... away.

”Our sails swell full as we brave all seas

On a westward wind to live as we please

With the wicked wild-eyed woman of Portobello town

Where we’ve been told that a purse of gold

Buys many man a crown

They will serve you and clothe you

Exchange your rags for the velvet coats of Kings.”

”Who’ll drink a toast with me

I give you Liberty

This town is ours... tonight.”

”Landlord, wine make it the finest

Make it a cup for a sea dogs thirst

Two long years of bones and beaches

Fever and leeches did their worst

So fill the night with paradise

Bring me peach and peacock till I burst

But first, I want a soft touch in the right place

I want to feel like a King tonight

Ten on the black to beat the Frenchman

Back you dogs give ’em room to turn

Now open wide sweet Heaven’s gates

Tonight we’re gonna see if Heaven burns

See how she burns... Oh she burns

I want an angel on a gold chain

And I’ll ride her to the stars

It’s the last time for a long long time

Come the daybreak, we embark...”

On the flood of the morning tide

Once more the ocean cried.

”This company will return one day

Though we feel your tears it’s the price we pay

For there’s prizes to be taken and glory to be found

Cut free the chains make fast your souls

We are Eldorado bound...

I will take you always forever together

Until hell call our names...”

”Who’ll drink a toast with me

To the devil and the deep blue sea

Gold drives a man... to dream!”

Rumors of my death were right on the money.

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My personal favorite song or should say songs are, Captain Jack and the Mermaid, and Red is the Rose both by the Crimson Pirates.

But if we are going fer bawdy then would have to say 'Your Day in the Barrel' also by the Crimson Pirates... :(

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ole Blind, glad ye admitted to that one, what a blast from the past! Anyhow, stichin me own pirate flag i was singin, Hoiiist thA-A Jolleeey Rawgerrrr.

My favorites are any songs by Sadie Dread and the Sea Sirens, heard at our practices, and so far heard only at one party. From me crew ye can hear Sailors Alphabet changed into Pirate's Alphabet, All for Me Grog, Another Drinking Song, Drunken Sailor, Blow the Man Down and more.

i love to hear about all your favorites and then i pillage your ideas and make 'em me own.

Sadie

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Ahoy!  I am new here and didn't see this mentioned before, so here goes.

My absolute favorite pirate song is Friggin' In The Riggin' as performed by the Sex Pistols (or what was left of them after Johnny Rotten left).  I know it is a traditional song, but their version cracks me up every time.

I have the words to that:

Friggin' in the Riggin'

Friggin in the riggin,

Friggin in the riggin,

Friggin in the riggin,

There's nothing else to do.

Twas back in '69

We left the Black Ball Line,

The crew did cry as we went by,

For we'd left our mates behind.

Twas back in '63

When the captain he went to sea,

Born of a whore, was cast ashore,

A son of a beach was he.

A cook whose name was Davey,

Was cashiered from the Navy

He dipped the bread inside the head,

And served it up as gravy.

The bosun's mate was Andy

A portsmouth man and randy,

He used to cool his favorite tool,

In a glass of the skipper's brandy.

The cabin boy was chipper,

A nasty little nipper.

He lined his ass with broken glass

And circumsised the skipper.

Rumba Rue

**Men are like bagpipes, no sound comes from them until they are full** :lol:

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Anyone know where ye can be downloadin a version of "blow the man down" and "15 men and a dead man's chest?"

Don't have a download, but I do have the words. BTW- you can order songbooks from Christine Lampe that has the words to most of the shanties around. Go to the NQG site, I know they are there for sale.

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Blow the Man Down

Intro: Come all ye young buccos and gather to me

Come list to me story, I'll sing it to ye.

Of adventure and gloryupon the high sea

An' trust that ye'll join the courus with me.

1. Oh as I wuz strollin' down fair London Street,

(chorus) Timme way, hay, blow the man down!

A sassy flash clipper I chct for to meet,

(chorus) Oooh, gimme some time ter blow the man down!

2. Of the port that she hailed from I cannot say much,

(chorus)Timme way, hay, blow the man down!

But by her appearance I too her for Dutch,

(chorus) Oooh, gimme some time ter blow the man down!

3. Her flag wuz three colours and her masthead wuz low,

She wuz round in the counter and' bluff at the bow

4. From larboard to starboard an'so sailed she,

She wuz sailin' at large--she wuz runnin' free

5. I fired me bow-chaser the signal she knew

She backed her mainttwaps'l an' for me hove to

6. She wux bowlin' along with the wind blowin free

She clewed up her courses and' waited for me

7. I hailed her in English she answered me clear

I'm from the Black Arrow bound to the Shaespeare

8. I tipped her me flipper an' took her in tow

An' yard-arm to yard-arm away we did go

9. The she took me to a hous of ill fame

It was the sign of the ship in Water Lane

10. She had some whisky and I had some rum

She asked me if I would see her home

11. We went home together and to bed we did go,

But what we did there I'm sure I don't know

12.We had a drink, maybe two, three or four

In the morning when I awoke I was stretched n the floor

13. Me shot-locker's empty, me powder's all spent

I've plenty o' time, boys, to think and repent.

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The Derelict by Young Ewing Allison

Fifteen men on the 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 bo's'n pike,

The bo's'n brained with a marlins spike!

And Coodey'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 bottle o' rum!

Fifteen men of a whole ships list,

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Dead and be-damned and the rest gone whist,

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

The skipper lay with his nob in gore

Where the sucllion's ax his cheek has shore

Anbd the sullion he was stbbed times four

And there they lay, and the soggy skies

Dripped all day long in upstring eyes

At murk sunset and at foul sunrise,

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

Fifteen men of em stiff and stark!

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

Ten o' the crew had the murder mark!

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

Twas a cutlass swipe, or an ounce o' lead

Or a yawing hole in a battered head

And the sucppers glut with a rotting red

And there they lay aye damn my eyes!

All lookouts clapped on paradise

All souls bound just contrariwise

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

Fifteen men of em good and true

Yo ho ho and aa bottle o' rum!

Every man-jack could ha sailed with Old Pew

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

There was chest on chest full of Spanish gold,

With a ton o' plate in the middle hold

And the cabin riot of loot untold

And thery lay there that had took the plum

With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb

While we shared all bythe rule of thumb

Yo ho ho and a bottle o'rum!

More was seen throught the sternlight screen

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

Chartings no doubt where a woman had been,

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

A flimsy shift on a bumker-cot

With a thin dirk-slot throught the bosom spot

And the lace stiff-dry in a purplish blot

Or was she wenchsome sudderin' maid,

What dared the knife and that took the blade

By God she was stuff for a plucky jade!

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

Drink and the Devil had done for the rest

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

We wrapped em all in a mains'l tight

With twice-ten turns of a hawswers bight

And we heaved 'em over and out of sight

With a Yo heave ho! And a fare-ye-well!

Ten fathoms deep on the road to Hell!

Yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum!

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Hope this does it for you - uh me fingers are numb from typin' all this!

Rumba Rue

**She's a pirate wench if she's got RR on her quarters** :lol:

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Certainly not an "official" pirate song by any means, my favorite sea shanty nonetheless be "Shiver My Timbers" from Muppets Treasure Island -- despite the hilarity of the rest of the film itself, this initial opening song (provided you hear it on the soundtrack and not in the film itself; the singing mosquitos kind of detract from the mystery *grins*) is a bit more serious in tone and really quite wonderful. The tune is a delightful earworm that gets stuck in your head; it makes a great "car song" that you can really get into singing (particularly at night). Great fun. :blink:

I am now "Captain Charlotte Savvy." Sorry for any confusion -- I'll only be making this user-name change this once! :)
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