I need PIRATE music!

[Robert]

On Saturday, my friends and I are running the K-100 Relay in the Canadian Rockies. It is one amazing relay! Here is the description of the leg I will be running (leg 5):

DESCRIPTION: This is the toughest leg of the relay. It's hilly with a number of segments at a 7% grade. The runner will gain 450m over the length of this route; 250m are packed into 6.8 km. The runner will be truly tested on Canada's highest engineered road. The road peaks at Highwood pass, 2206m above sea level. The surface is new asphalt. Watch for wildlife.

Yeah, they aren't joking about the wildlife part. Last time I ran it, a Grizzly was visible along the road... the park rangers had to come chase it away. Some people were freaked out when they saw the big teddy bear!

Anyway, the main reason I'm bringing all this up is that our name this year is "Camrose Pirates", and I'm looking at ways we can have some fun with this. I have bought a bunch of Pirate gear from the dollar store, and another idea is that I bring an iPod portable sound system and play Pirate songs for our runners! Maybe I can even learn one myself and then bring the guitar along and sing...

So my question is, do you have any suggestions for good Pirate Songs? That I can download to my iPod? I'm leaving tomorrow morning, so time's running out...

Here's the video I made from last year's race.

 

[Rocket]

"The Last Saskatchewan Pirate":
Well, I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine
I had a little stretch of land along the C. P. line
But times got tough, and though I tried, the money wasn't there
The bankers came and took my land and told me, "Fair is fair"
I looked for every kind of job, the answer always no
"Hire you now?" they'd always laugh, "We just let twenty go!" (Ha ha!)
The government, they promised me a measly little sum
But I've got too much pride to end up just another bum
Then I thought, who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone
I'm gonna be a pirate on the river Saskatchewan! (Arr!)

---

"Yo Ho A Pirate's Life For Me":
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
We kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

Yo Ho, Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me.

We extort, we pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!
Maraud and embezzle and even hijack.

Drink up me 'earties, Yo Ho!

---

Yo Ho Ho (and a Bottle of Rum):

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And the scullion he was stabbed times four
And there they lay, and the soggy skies
Dripped down in up-staring eyes
In murk sunset and foul sunrise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Ten of the crew had the murder mark!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes
Looking up at paradise
All souls bound just contrawise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that took the plum
With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb
While we shared all by the rule of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

More was seen through a sternlight screen...
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Chartings undoubt where a woman had been
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot
With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot
Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid
That dared the knife and took the blade
By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

 

[Robert]

Thanks! I just listened to those 3 just before you posted them! The Last Saskatchewan Pirate is by a band in Edmonton! Where I almost live...

Captain Kidd by Great Big Sea will work great too.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice Rocket! :AOK:

 

[markb]

 

[Robert]

markb, that was hilarious!

 

[tjcurtin1]

The Harrison bit was great! But I also loved seeing all the actual words to 'Yo ho ho' - that's quite the song!

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Markbb, that was awesome. Thanks for posting that!

 

[marnold]

I've never seen anything from Rutland Weekend Television. I'm a big Eric Idle fan. I wonder if that stuff ever made it to DVD. Hmmm. Google here I come!

 

[Spudman]

This is kind of along the theme. Not exactly pirates but plenty of bones.