
Date of issue: 31.12.2011
Record label: EMI
Song language: English
Privateering |
Yon’s my privateer |
See how trim she lies |
To every man a lucky hand |
And every man a prize |
I live to ride the ocean |
The mighty world around |
To take a little plunder |
And to hear the cannon sound |
To lay with pretty women |
To drink Madeira wine |
To hear the rollers thunder |
On a shore that isn’t mine |
Privateering we will go |
Privateering, yo ho ho ho |
Privateering we will go |
Yo ho ho, yo ho ho |
The people on your man o' war |
Are treated worse than scum |
I’m no flogging captain |
And by God I’ve sailed with some |
Come with me to Barbary |
We’ll ply there up and down |
Not quite exactly |
In the service of the Crown |
To lay with pretty women |
To drink Madeira wine |
To hear the rollers thunder |
On a shore that isn’t mine |
Look’ee there’s my privateer |
She’s small but she can sting |
Licensed to take prizes |
With a letter from the King |
I love the streets and taverns |
Of a pretty foreign town |
Tip my hat to the dark-eyed ladies |
As we sally up and down |
To lay with pretty women |
To drink Madeira wine |
To hear the rollers thunder |
On a shore that isn’t mine |
Britannia needs her privateers |
Each time she goes to war |
Death to all her enemies |
Though prizes matter more |
Come with me to Barbary |
We’ll ply there up and down |
Not quite exactly |
In the service of the Crown |
To lay with pretty women |
To drink Madeira wine |
To hear the rollers thunder |
On a shore that isn’t mine |
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