Lyr Req: Traighli Bay (Al Parrish)

Subject: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics
From: Captain Roberts
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 05:58 AM

Below are the first two verses to the song I'm looking for. Please, can anyone help?


It was August and still hot
When on board the ship we got
Shot and powder for our guns
And ten gallons each of rum
Salt Cod to last us through the winter squall

We made for the southwest
Where the hunting would be best
Where the Spanish ships of trade
Down with Aztec gold are laden
Easy pickings for us gentlemen of furtune

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics
From: Naemanson
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:20 AM

Traighli Bay written by Al Parrish and performed by Tanglefoot on their album Saturday Night In Hardwood Lake. I need to transcribe it from the album and it doesn't look like I'll have time this weekend. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics
From: Naemanson
Date: 01 Sep 00 - 09:29 AM

I mean I'll be able to provide the lyrics on late Monday or Tuesday. I certainly didn't mean to leave you hanging.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics
From: Naemanson
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:03 PM

OK, the weekend is over and you aren't going to believe this. I left the damn CD at my parent's house! I'm still working on getting the words to you. I checked Tanglefoot's web site and they don't have the lyrics there.

I'll check in with a friend.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics
From: Captain Roberts
Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:09 PM

Thanks. The info you gave me was enough for me to find the lyrics on-line. That was a godsend. I've been searching for that info for 9 years now. Any idea where I can get an MP3 of the song, or find the album?

Subject: Lyr Add: TRAIGHLI BAY (Al Parrish)
From: GUEST,Roll&Go-C
Date: 09 Mar 01 - 05:04 PM

For others who might be interested in this happy and successful Pirates' song, here's how our group sings it:

TRAIGHLI BAY
(By Al Parrish, Tanglefoot © 1994 From Saturday Night at Hardwood Lake Adapted slightly by Charlie Ipcar)

It was June and it was hot, when on board the ship we got,
Shot and powder for the guns, and a hogshead full of rum,
Salt cod to last until the winter squalls;
We made for the southwest, where the hunting would be best,
Where them Spanish ships of old, ladened down with Aztec gold,
Were the fairest game for gentlemen of fortune.

Chorus:

And with tar on our pigtails, and blood on our rapiers
We'll fly the skull and crossbones.
By God, we'll take no prisoners.
'Tis) hi ho a-way, boys; we'll sail for Traigh-li Bay, boys,
Hoist the Jolly Roger, at the break of day.

From up the crow's nest, then, called our third mate Mister Flynn,
"Set the course and hold her steady, and for action make her ready –
There's a Spanish galleon off our starboard bow;"
We raised the black flag high, as that Spaniard turned to fly;
We followed in her wake, 'til we could overtake,
And dismasted her with chain shot and cannon ball. (CHO)

We pulled up along side with our grappling hooks and lines,
Guns and cutlasses in hand, on the gunnels we did stand;
Every sailor from the captain to the cabin boy;
Saw three dead the chain had flayed; as we raised and crossed our blades,
To their mates we gave our best, as the sun sank in the west,
With pikes and swords, pistols, fists and feet.(CHO)

From the darkness till the dawn, that battle rag-ed on,
We fought with manly fitness, for we meant to leave no witness;
We lost Mister Flynn and one leg from the cabin boy;
But with their treasure we retired, and their canvas we set fire,
Left them sinking in the deep, where their silent bones can sleep,
And we forged a leg of gold for the cabin boy.(CHO)

'Twas August and still warm, when to Traighli we returned.
Fifty-eight days on the Main; we've no need to sail again;
We've gold and silver more than we can spend;
Now half a century has passed, and of that crew I am the last;
Fifty years I've walked these docks, and when I get a chance to talk
I tell of how I got this golden leg!(CHOx2)

ARGHHH!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Pirate Song, I need title and lyrics
From: Charley Noble
Date: 05 Oct 02 - 09:57 AM

Do buy and check the Tanglefoot CD for their actual words, my link to www.tanglefootmusic.com works when I do it but fails when I try to "make a link here"; my post above as Roll&Go-C is slightly revised.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble