Bonus Content: A Pirate's Life

A pirate's life for me!

© Jason Phelps 2019.

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You’re a cheat, you’re a swindler, You’re a charmer and a rogue You’re a braggart, you’re a scoundrel, You’re a beauty, strike a pose

You’ve got wits, you’ve got courage, To make free upon the sea Buy your sails and buy your pistols It’s the pirate’s life for me

I did twenty years of service on the HMS Canard Thought the crown would look out for her Onto deck, it’s working hard

Now I’m sacked without a pension All my prospects gone to sea So I’ll sink her majesty's vessels It’s a pirate’s life for me

You’re a cheat, you’re a swindler, You’re a charmer and a rogue You’re a braggart, you’re a scoundrel, You’re a beauty, strike a pose

You’ve got wits, you’ve got courage, To make free upon the sea Buy your sails and buy your pistols It’s the pirate’s life for me

We were brave soldiers of fortune on the merchant privateer Now the war’s come to a ceasefire and we’re back to holding beer

Who wants to toil with sweat and blood for barely a copper or three There’s better pay in letting blood The pirate’s life for me

You’re a cheat, you’re a swindler, You’re a charmer and a rogue You’re a braggart, you’re a scoundrel, You’re a beauty, strike a pose

You’ve got wits, you’ve got courage, To make free upon the sea Buy your sails and buy your pistols It’s the pirate’s life for me

My old master he loved discipline And the stroking of the cat Peel your flesh from your bones With each caress of the lash

Every blow will make you stronger His own words he got to see When me hands were wrapped around his throat The pirate’s life for me

You’re a cheat, you’re a swindler, You’re a charmer and a rogue You’re a braggart, you’re a scoundrel, You’re a beauty, strike a pose

You’ve got wits, you’ve got courage, To make free upon the sea Buy your sails and buy your pistols It’s the pirate’s life for me

I’m out here because I’m wanted And I can’t go back to land I’m a fool who fell in desperate love And sought the wrong man’s hand

But his husband was a captain in her majesty's cavalry So I skipped the town and went to port The pirate’s life for me

You’re a cheat, you’re a swindler, You’re a charmer and a rogue You’re a braggart, you’re a scoundrel, You’re a beauty, strike a pose

You’ve got wits, you’ve got courage, To make free upon the sea Buy your sails and buy your pistols It’s the pirate’s life for me

Well we’re thieves and we’re bastards And we’ve killed a soul or three But unlike the suds on land We know what is to be free

So stay out of our way Lest you want to pay a fee Cause neither one of us will be slaves again The pirate’s life for me

You’re a cheat, you’re a swindler, You’re a charmer and a rogue You’re a braggart, you’re a scoundrel, You’re a beauty, strike a pose

You’ve got wits, you’ve got courage, To make free upon the sea Buy your sails and buy your pistols It’s the pirate’s life for me