Pirates (LIVE - April 1, 1993)

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Who'll make his mark
 The Captain cried
 To the Devil drink a toast
 We'll glut the hold
 With cups of gold
 And we'll feed the sea with ghosts
 I see your hunger for a fortune
 Could be better
 Served beneath my flag
 If you've the stomach
 For a broadside
 Come aboard my pretty boys
 I will take you and make you
 Everything you've ever dreamed
 Make fast the guns tonight we sail
 When the high tide floods the bay
 Cut free the lines
 And square the yards
 Get the black flag stowed away
 The Turk the Arab and the Spaniard
 Will soon have pennies on their eyes
 And any other laden fancy
 We will take her by surprise
 I will take you and make you
 Everything you've ever dreamed
 Six days off the Cuban coast
 When a sail ahead they spied
 A Galleon of the treasure fleet
 The mizzen lookout cried
 Closer to the wind my boys
 The mad eyed Captain roared
 For every man that's alive tonight
 Will be hauling gold aboard
 Spare us the galleon begged
 But mercy's face had fled
 Blood ran from the screaming souls
 The cutlass harvested
 Driven to the quarter deck
 The last survivor fell
 She's ours my boys
 The Captain grinned
 And no one left to tell
 The Captain rose from a silk divan
 With a pistol in his fist
 And shot the lock from an iron box
 And a blood red ruby kissed
 I give you jewelry of turquoise
 A crucifix of solid gold
 One hundred thousand silver pieces
 It is just as I foretold
 You, you see there before you
 Everything you've ever dreamed
 Anchored in an indigo moonlit bay
 Gold eyed 'round fires
 The sea thieves lay
 Morning, white shells
 And a pipe of clay
 As the wind filled their footprints
 They were far, far away
 Our sails swell full
 As we brave all seas
 On a westward wind
 To live as we please
 With the wicked wild eyed woman
 Of portobello town
 Where we've been told
 That a purse of gold
 Buys any man a crown
 They will serve you and cloth you
 Exchange your rags
 For the velvet coats of kings
 Who'll drink a toast with me
 I give you liberty
 This town is ours - tonight
 Landlord wine
 And make it the finest
 Make it a cup for a sea dogs thirst
 Two long years of bones and beaches
 Fever and leaches did their worst
 So fill the night with paradise
 Bring me peach and peacock
 'Till I burst
 But first, I want a soft touch
 In the right place
 I want to feel like a king tonight
 Ten on the black
 To beat the Frenchman
 Back you dogs
 Give them room to turn
 Now open wide sweet Heavens gate
 Tonight were gonna
 See if Heaven burns
 I want an angel on a gold chain
 And I'll ride her to the stars
 It's the last time
 For a long, long time
 Come the daybreak we embark
 On the flood of the morning tide
 Once more the ocean cried
 This company will return one day
 Though we feel your tears
 It's the price we pay
 For there's prizes to be taken
 And glory to be found
 Cut free the chains
 Make fast your souls
 We are eldorado bound
 I will take you
 For always, forever, together
 Until Hell calls our names
 Who'll drink a toast with me
 To the Devil and the deep blue sea
 Gold drives a man to dream

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Duration
14:18
Key
7
Tempo
108 BPM

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