I'd still love to hear any songs that were collected from a traditional source that deals with real women pirates even the ledgends have been scarce in song. Nothing has ever turned up about the fictional Fanny Campbell from Lynn, Mass or the legendary female Norse pirate Alwilda of the 5th century thought she does turn up in the artwork of whalers. br Hi emily rain, it's also said (taken from the Ocean Almanac by Robert Hendrickson) that Anne's lover, Calico Jack, on the way to the gallows with his crew exclaimed "If instead of these weaklings I only had had some more women with me" to which Anne replied as he passed by "Had you fought like a man, you need not be hung like a dog".
The most recent women pirates of any fame would be Lai Chon San (Mountains Of Fortune) plying her trade in the China Seas around 1920-1937 until being sunk by a Japanese destroyers then to soon be followed by Huang Pem-ci (Madam Two Revolvers) who is said to have worked for both Chiang Kaishek & the US Secert Service during WWII (there's some connection between her & "Terry & The Pirates" that is lost on me). br Barry