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Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!

05 Jun 08 - 07:13 AM (#2358085)
Subject: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: Ernest

THIS is how it should be done for pirate songs....

;0)
Ernest


05 Jun 08 - 12:28 PM (#2358394)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: irishenglish

Aaaaaarrggghhhh matey! Still my favorite image of a salty old seadog is Captain Haddock.


05 Jun 08 - 12:59 PM (#2358436)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: lady penelope

I feel I must disute this. In my view it should (ahem, clears throat...)

Ahhaaarrrgh!

Note the 'H' after the initial 'A'. Makes the world of difference.... *G*


05 Jun 08 - 01:19 PM (#2358449)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: John on the Sunset Coast

I think Aaaarrgh, was invented by Robert Newton when he essayed Long John Silver or Blackbeard the Pirate (he had a delicious death scene as the latter.)


05 Jun 08 - 01:19 PM (#2358450)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: dick greenhaus

COme to think of it, aside from Andrew Barton (Henry Martin) and Ward and the Rainbow, there aren't a helluva lot of traditional pirate songs.


05 Jun 08 - 01:21 PM (#2358452)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: irishenglish

Don't forget about Captain Kidd Dick!


05 Jun 08 - 01:24 PM (#2358455)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: Ernest

Come to think of it, this thread might belong into the
BS (for Buccaneer Ship) section....

;0)
Ernest


05 Jun 08 - 01:34 PM (#2358467)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: Steve Gardham

Sorry, however you spell it the Aaaargh was invented by Walter Gabriel of the Archers.

Kelly the Pirate. Bold Princess Royal. There are lots of songs about privateers. Officially they were pirates if you fell foul of them.


05 Jun 08 - 01:37 PM (#2358471)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: Ernest

"Barrets privateers" should not be forgotten - even if it ain`t trad (yet)...


05 Jun 08 - 01:41 PM (#2358478)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: irishenglish

Bold Privateer!


05 Jun 08 - 02:17 PM (#2358509)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: John on the Sunset Coast

You may be correct, Steve, as I have heard of neither Walter Gabriel nor the Archers. I do know that Newton was LGS in the 1950 version of Treasure Island.


05 Jun 08 - 02:27 PM (#2358517)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: bubblyrat

Who's that then ?? Long George Silver ??


05 Jun 08 - 05:07 PM (#2358702)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,leeneia

I prefer the elegant eloquence of P.G. Wodehouse, as in

'I say, I seem to have sent my motor car smashing into your roses. Mind giving me a hand extricating it?"

'R'


05 Jun 08 - 08:54 PM (#2358923)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: John on the Sunset Coast

Okay, I don't know my alphabet yet, but I plan to as soon as I master the "F"s. It is, of course, LJS. Or maybe he collected, long, Georgian silver. What the heck do I know?


05 Jun 08 - 10:39 PM (#2358993)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: Phil Cooper

Where are your Buccaneers?

Under my Buccan hat!

Send me a pm if you want the rest of the joke, if you haven't heard it before. Don't forget Polly on the Shore.


05 Jun 08 - 10:53 PM (#2358999)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: John on the Sunset Coast

Is that another Halloween joke? Haven't we had enough of those?


06 Jun 08 - 04:07 AM (#2359082)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle

Definitely not traditional, but I remember as a child a TV series about pirates, the sig tune of which went something like:

A life on the ocean wave will be
The only life for you and me.
We'll sail across the mighty sea
Forever.

And if we find that danger's near
We'll whistle the tune 'The Buccaneer'
And we will face the enemy
Together.


06 Jun 08 - 11:13 AM (#2359398)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: McGrath of Harlow

Still my favorite image of a salty old seadog is Captain Haddock.

What's the French for "Arrgh"?


06 Jun 08 - 11:49 AM (#2359426)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: greg stephens

Piracy songs: don't forget the classic "Flying Cloud". The slaving section of the song is perhaps the most notable, but he indulges in plenty of piacy as well.


06 Jun 08 - 11:51 AM (#2359428)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST

McGrath-isn't it billions of billious blue blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon?


06 Jun 08 - 12:21 PM (#2359453)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: bubblyrat

I remember a TV programme from the 1950s called " The Buccaneers ", and the title song went something like-

    "let's go a-roving,a-roving across the ocean,
       Let's go a-roving and join the Buccaneers " ...

   It was crap, but hey !! What else was there in those days, apart from Phil Silvers ??


06 Jun 08 - 12:22 PM (#2359456)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: bubblyrat

Sorry, I forgot Bronco Lane !! ( And Wells Fargo, of course ! ).


06 Jun 08 - 09:30 PM (#2359791)
Subject: RE: Trad Arrrgh!!!!!!!!!!
From: The Fooles Troupe

"but he indulges in plenty of piacy as well"

You mean 'piety'? That maketh him a Religious Pirate surely?