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( Pirates song lyrics )
A PIRATE'S LIFE
( WILL BE THE DEATH OF ME )
Copyright © 2008 - mickterry.com

1: Yo ho ho. Skull and crossbones on the mizzen.
Yo ho ho. Black canvas billows on the main.
Yo ho ho. If you're lucky, you might die in prison
and not swept overboard in a hurricane.

2: Yo ho ho. White squall hit from out of nowhere.
Yo ho ho. Rogue wave will snap a mast in two.
Yo ho ho. Fair Tahiti, Cap'n say we go there,
but it's been seven years and it ain't in view.

CHORUS:
There's a ghost of a chance you'll live this long.
You're young & you're foolish & you're way headstrong.
Thirty-three years on the blackened sea,
a pirate's life will be the death of me.

3: Yo ho ho. Tattoos cover both your forearms:
Yo ho ho. Kraken and shark and crocodile.
Yo ho ho. Navy'd rather hang you from the yardarm
than to waste any time on your measly trial.
CHORUS:

4: Yo ho ho. Scurvey, mold and rot and bad rum.
Yo ho ho. Musket- ball inside your brain.
Yo ho ho. If you're lucky, you might die of boredom
in the Horse Latitudes where the Sirens know your name.
CHORUS:

CODA:   (spoken)
Let me see if me gets this right:
"Aarrgh! Avast ye maties!
Shiver me timbers, ye scurvy swabs!
Walk the plank or we keel-haul ye!
Pieces of nine ... no, that ain't right.
Pieces of seven ... no, ... six ... "

Copyright © 2008  MICK TERRY  Silent Tree Music  All rights reserved
[ Reprinted here by permission of the composer-lyricist ]   BMI
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11-20-08:
Somali pirates hold 17 ships with 300 hostages.
Indian navy destroyed 1 pirate "mother ship".
Somali pirates have received more than $80 million from cargo ships
ransomed so far this year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27766333/

11-15-08:
Somali pirates captured Saudi Arabian supertanker Sirius Star
(largest piracy ever) loaded with $110 million of oil near Kenya,
demanding $25 million ransom.

9-25-08:
50 pirates captured Ukranian cargo ship MV Faina
carrying military cargo, demanding $35 (then 20, then 8) million ransom.

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CAUGHT IN THE DESERT
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& LEAVE THE DYING TO US
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TAGGERS HIT OUR HOME TODAY
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NOT QUITE THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION
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