Info: Pirate Song

Subject: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 08:36 AM

Looking for a song that lists all the body parts that you need to lose to become a pirate

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: GUEST,Derrick
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 09:02 AM

Look here,
          Can't do blue clicky ,copy and paste works




http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/10/pirate.htm

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: GUEST,Thank you, that is the one I was looking for
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 09:39 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 04:34 PM

Well, it would have been nice to share it with the rest of us who like a jolly macabre piratical song: so here are the lyrics - copied from that link. If you want the video you'll have to follow the link.

THE PIRATE SONG

Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses an eye;
It stings like the blazes, it makes you pull faces,
You can't let your mates see you cry.
A dashing black patch will cover the hatch,
And make sure that the socket stays dry;
Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses an eye.

But it's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be, you can't be)
With all of your parts;
It's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be a pirate)
With all of your parts.

Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses an ear;
It drips down your neck, and it falls on the deck,
Till someone shouts, "Oy, what's this 'ere?"
You can't wear your glasses,
you can't poll the lasses,
Your friends have to shout so you'll hear;
Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses an ear.

But it's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be, you can't be)
With all of your parts;
It's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be a pirate)
With all of your parts.

Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses a hand;
It spurts and it squirts and it jolly well hurts,
Pain only a pirate could stand.
The fash'nable look is a nice metal hook,
But now you can't play in the band;
Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses a hand.

But it's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be, you can't be)
With all of your parts;
It's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be a pirate)
With all of your parts.

Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses a leg;
It hurts like the dickens, your pace never quickens,
Hopping around on a peg.
Ask your sweetheart to marry,
but too long you've tarried,
'Cause now you can't kneel down and beg;
Being a pirate is all fun and games,
Till somebody loses a leg.

But it's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be, you can't be)
With all of your parts;
It's all part of being a pirate,
You can't be a pirate (you can't be a pirate)
With all of your parts.

It makes me quite irate -
It hardly seems fair,
You can't be a pirate -
If you are all there!

####.... Don Freed of Saskatchewan, Canada ....####
Recorded by Don Freed (Live ARR! ©1992 Bushleague Records).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 05:21 PM

Being a Pirate · Fisherman's Friends    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmbLh5vPOjk

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 07:50 PM

earlier thread Lyr Req/Add: You Can't Be a Pirate (Don Freed) https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=55805&messages=100&page=1

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: GerryM
Date: 05 Aug 21 - 10:33 PM

Matthew Lykos recorded this song on his CD, Singer with Great Shirts. It's also on More People Have Songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 06 Aug 21 - 05:25 AM

Someone used to Sing this at Upper Dicker. Great.
(to lose several body parts seems like carelessness)

Subject: RE: Info: Pirate Song
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Aug 21 - 03:32 PM

Don Freed used to be irate with people who created alternative verses. I understand he has since mellowed. Sadly Tom Lewis never recorded his "losing your whatsis" verse.