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.
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"The Roving Kind"
Date: 2007-05-18 04:41 pm (UTC)Nate B.