High Seas Lyrics

Yar, this is quite a prize

Put them in chains

Check the hold for valuables

You there, yer joining the crew, we need a new cabin boy

Please don't take me

Why? I think you are going to love it here

The pirates are here

Impressing me into crime

I am trembling in fear

Not built for wartime

The streets of London, a begger's life

A pauper's son facing daily strife

I wanted to live without hunger and pain

Or maybe a life of crystal and champagne

Hung out at the docks, looking for a ship

Met a surly man with a deeply cleft lip

Join a crew, sail the spanish main

Leaving that life now strikes me as insane

The pirates are here

Impressing me into crime

I am trembling in fear

Not built for wartime

They loot, they pillage, they sack, and they kill

Not stopping their rampage till they've gotten a fill

Of gold and liquour and gems and blood

Enveloping the seas like a violent flood

They have leathery skin, they wear raggedy clothes

A battle scared face with a bulbous hooked nose

Hearing all the death but they like to drink beer

Laughing as they rampage through a brutal career

Feeling the breeze of these deadly high seas

But the pirate's wheeze won't put me at ease

Leave this place, feel my lover's embrace

Face to face with a deadly nutcase

The pirates are here

Impressing me into crime

I am trembling in fear

Not built for wartime

Don't worry lad, things will be ok

You have a lot to learn. Let me show you to the hold