The Pirate Emergency Lyrics

Every pirate was the same

We could not wait for climate change

The seas would swallow all the land

We'd cheer and raise our hooks and hands

One day a girl boarded the ship

A Swede heading to a summit

She said you've got the whole thing wrong

Who will you loot when everyone's gone?

Hi! Ho!

Whats happening on the high seas?

Don't you know?

It's a pirate emergency

Though we are above the law

We all stopped using plastic straws

Straight from the keg we'd drink our rum

Until one day we stumbled upon

The great Atlantic garbage patch

Even looked big with an eye patch

Turns out that we misplaced the threat

The patch was mostly fishing nets

Hi! Ho!

Whats happening on the high seas?

Don't you know?

It's a pirate emergency

If we saw a fishing boat

We'd try to board and slit their throats

Protecting fish protects the sharks

We want walking the plank to last

Years went by with many dead

Until one day my parrot said

These fisherman are just a victim

Of an economic system

Hi! Ho!

Whats happening on the high seas?

Don't you know?

It's a pirate emergency

We stayed on land 'til anchors rust

But politics just weren't for us

It seemed now that all hope was lost

But then we came across Oli Frost

He said just do what you do best

Knowing yourself's a treasure chest

Just write a jaunty sea shanty

To make your point seem less preachy