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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