Hoist The Colours (Pirate Song)

Gumbo

Now ye sons of the kraaken, let’s get to some honest pillaging, shall we? Aaaarh!

The devil is an idle jest compared to what’s within this chest
No hearts more black than ours they say
trust your own hide to be waterproof only
else they’ll hang you from that tree, that crowd that is stoney eyed

grow ye some gills, for when ye go under
your pockets all bulging and heavy with plunder
give your heart to the tide as it glistens all foamy
the ocean lies open lads come and we’ll roam it

Hoist the Colours
(Bones and black)
Hoist them high
we’re out for the craic
Hoist the Colours,
take down that Jack
Hoist them high
(bones and black)

Dead men all above the grave, it keeps us on our toes
we’ll leave ye dancing in our wake with barrels stacked in rows
Fortunes smile our way to rave Neptune has his way so say
we’ll all have our gills when we go under

drawn on by the fruits of the sea we pit our wits and trust our ire
though the winds be kind, the puzzle that we leave is dire
that ship of yourn once so fine is now become a crackling pyre
though all who look ahead can see it’s water rules the dawn not fire

Hoist the Colours
(Bones and black)
Hoist them high
we’re out for the craic
Hoist the Colours,
take down that Jack
Hoist them high
(bones and black)