Arrrrr!

[pegkerr]

Tanglewood's Traighli Bay is just about the Best Pirate Song Evah. I need to download a copy, or buy this CD. With my copious spare cash.

What is your favorite pirate song? (There's also this one and this one).

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[avengangle.livejournal.com]

This: http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/lastsask.htm

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I've heard that one and love it, too, and I should have remembered it! Thanks for the link; I'll add it to the original post.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

The Arrogant Worms rock.

[bluewaterlilies.livejournal.com]

My Saskatchewanese pirate husband lurrrves that song. :) He walks around singing it some days. I think it makes him feel more at home, here in hot Texas.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

I like Stephen Malkmus' The Hook.


Here's a clip of it:

http://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Malkmus/_/The+Hook

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Barrett's Privateers!

Though I'm also a huge fan of "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate."

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, of course! I do have a copy of Barrett's Privateers.

"The Roving Kind"

[(Anonymous)]

There's a recording from about 1963 by the Weavers of a song called "The Roving Kind," that contains an occasional reference to a pirate ship. The last line of what I think is the last verse, I have heard (in an occasional live setting -- can't remember who performed it live; filk circle, or where?) as "She was nothing but an acrobat rigged up in a disguise," or "She was nothing but a pirate ship rigged up in a disguise." An earlier verse ends with, "It was then she made me walk the plank/and pushed me under too." The chorus, which may sound vaguely familiar, was "She had a dark and roving eye/And her hair hung down in ring-a-lets/She was a nice girl, a proper girl, but -- one of the roving kind." The reasons for liking this have more to do with the music than the (slightly disjointed) lyrics.

Nate B.

"The Roving Kind"

[(Anonymous)]

Peg, I inadvertently (and, I believe, for the first time ever) posted an anonymous comment to your pirate song question. I did not mean it to be screened, and would appreciate your "unscreening" it so our mutual friends can see it, without my needing to reconstruct the whole thing. Thanks.

Nate Bucklin

"The Roving Kind," times 3

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

I tried and tried to get my name, or at least my LJ handle, on the last two posts. I have no idea what went wrong, but please "unscreen" my previous two comments. Thanks.

Nate Bucklin

Re: "The Roving Kind," times 3

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Done!

[oracne.livejournal.com]

"Pirates," by Emerson, Lake, & Palmer.

[carbonel]

"Captain Jenny," by Kara Dalkey. Word not available online, best I can tell.