The Sea Rover

14 July 2010 The Sea Rover Moving sideways or careening All hands hoay and avast ye Sea dogs and landlubbers go on pillaging Jolly Roger is flapping guarded by cannon and artillery Pistol, daggers, and doubloon among things inside the sea-chest Walk the plank if they caught you as offenders Or heave to an island and marooning them as helpless Yo ho ho! and a bottle of rum as a way of pirate’s laughter As the ship rolled about on high seas Plenty of cackle fruit to serve a salmagundi A drink of grog or bumboo wobbled their sea legs In tossing ship, proves them as scallywags Blow me down! alerted by a cannon blast The enemies have climbed on their Jacob's ladder Black spot meet their way on to Tortuga’s vast All hearty and brave soldiers have fallen to Davy Jone’s locker