I am a performer with a children's educational-entertainment program featuring a pirate character.

I play guitar, mandolin, uke, tin whistle, etc, so I can play some period-correct (or period-similar) instruments. I know lots of shanties and sea songs from much later, but I am trying to locate songs from what is known as the "Golden Age Of Piracy", roughly 1650-1730.

I am concentrating on a smaller spread of years because several pirates whose histories I have studied and know well were alive and working during the years I asked about.

I guess there are really two questions here:

1) What songs would sailors have been familiar with from before 1675 that had become "standards"

and

2) What songs were "written" or created then, perhaps about contemporary persons and events?

P.S. if it helps, I am trying to stay away from songs that were popular but celebrated military persons and conquests - although many pirates like Capt. Henry Morgan (he of the rum) considered themselves proud, patriotic Englishmen, I am going to be presenting to largely multi-ethnic, multi-cultural groups, so they might not understand or appreciate cheering for one or another specific nation.

I will of course be including songs that are associated with pirates but come from later years or from fiction (such as "Sixteen Men On A Dead Man's Chest" and "A Pirate's Life For Me").

Thank you!