"I don't care what your politics are, when our children are dying in the streets, it's time to put away the guns."

Yes, Dan... a fervent Amen.

Back to the privateers for a moment, though. I've found a couple of sources with an interesting twist. More than one source says that perhaps the "Sherbrooke" in Stan's song refers to a ship, and not the town. There were three ships called "Sherbrooke" on the water at the time the song is supposed to take place. One was out of Halifax, and was named the Sir John Sherbrooke, after a great military man of the day (and later, one of our governors here in Nova Scotia), Sir John Coape Sherbrooke. Incidentally, both Sherbrooke NS and Sherbrooke PQ were named after Sir John as well. A great page with info on "Barrett's..." is here, at Barrett's Privateers Explored.

Cheers,

Ireland