Lyrics High Barbaree - Burl Ives

High Barbaree - Burl Ives
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Date of issue: 26.06.2011
Song language: English

High Barbaree

Burl Ives — High Barbaree
Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee,
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee,
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
O are you a pirate or a man o’war?
cried we
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
O no !
I’m not a pirate, but a man o’war, cried he,
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
Then back up your topsails and heave your vessel to;
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
For we have got some letters to be carried home by you.
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
We’ll back up our topsails and heave our vessel to;
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
But only in some harbour and along the side of you.
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
For broadside, for broadside, they fought all on the main;
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
Until at last the frigate shot the pirate’s mast away.
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
For quarters !
For quarters !
the saucy pirate cried.
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
The quarters that we showed them was to sink them in the tide.
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
With cutlass, and with gun, O we fought them hours three;
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
The ship it was their coffin, and their grave it was the sea.
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.
But O !
It was a cruel sight, and grieved us full sore,
Blow high !
Blow low !
and so sailed we.
To see them all a-drowning as they tried to swim to shore.
A-sailing down all on the coasts of High Barbaree.

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