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Thread #53774 Message #1041083
Posted By: radriano
24-Oct-03 - 11:19 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Pirate's Song
Subject: Lyr Add: CAPTAIN COLSTON
Here's the version I have:
CAPTAIN COLSTON
You landsmen all on you I call you heroes stout and brave That are inclined to cross the sea, your homeland now to leave Come join with Captain Colston that hero stout and bold Who fought his way all on the sea and never was controlled
O we sailed away from Liverpool the weather being fine Bound for New York city Boys, it was our chief design We being all Irish emigrants the truth to you I'll tell Who in distress our homes had left and to Ireland bid farewell
The weather was as charming as ever you saw before For twenty days of pleasure we never thought of shore The Captain and his lady fair were seen on deck each day To crown out hearts with merriment while sailing on the sea
On the evening of the twenty fifth our captain he did cry Clear away the decks me boys for a strange ship I do spy And all you Irish emigrants awake now from your sleep For in a few more hours, me boys, you'll be slumbering in the deep
For a pirate ship is coming down just from the western sea For to rob us of our property going to Anerikay O the pirate ship came up to us and ordered us to stand Your gold and precious cargo this moment I demand
You gold and precious loading resign to me this day Or one living soul you'll never bring into Amerikay Then out spoke Captain Coulston, unto his jovial crew Saying, We will fight until we die; we've nothing else to do
Then up and spoke our captain with voice both loud and bold Saying we will slumber in the deep before we'll be controlled So the battle it commenced, the blood in streams did flow Undaunted were our Irish boys, who did them overthrow
There was a young man on the deck with his true love by his side With courage bold they fought their way along the bulwark side She cried, My gallant hero, I'll shortly end this strife And with a pocket pistol ball, she took the pirate captain's life
And the cries of women and children as in the hold they lay And our captain and gallant crew they showed them Irish play Well done, well done, brave Coulston cried, Well done my lady too Your aim has proved so deadly, you've shot the pirate captain through
And it's to conclude and finish the truth I'll tell to you Our Losses were not many, they being only one or two And the pirate ship surrendered just at the break of day And we brought her as a prisoner all to Amerikay