《Barrett’s Privateers》歌词

[00:00:00] Oh the year was seventeen seventy eight

[00:00:03] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:00:06] A letter of marque came from the King

[00:00:08] To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen

[00:00:09] God Damn them all I was told

[00:00:12] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:00:14] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:00:17] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

[00:00:21] The last of Barrett's privateers

[00:00:25] Oh Elcid Barrett cried the town

[00:00:27] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:00:30] For twenty brave men all fishermen who

[00:00:32] Would make for him the Antelope's crew

[00:00:34] God Damn them all I was told

[00:00:36] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:00:42] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:00:46] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

[00:00:51] The last of Barrett's privateers

[00:00:54] The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight

[00:00:56] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:01:01] She'd a list to port and her sails in rags

[00:01:07] And a cook in the scuppers with staggers and jags

[00:01:08] God Damn them all I was told

[00:01:30] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:01:33] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:01:35] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

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[00:01:39] On the King's birthday we put to sea

[00:01:42] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:01:45] We were ninety-one days to Montego bay

[00:01:48] Pumping like madmen all the way

[00:01:51] God Damn them all I was told

[00:01:55] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:01:57] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:01:59] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

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[00:02:04] On the ninety-sixth day we sailed again

[00:02:07] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:02:12] When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight

[00:02:14] With our cracked four-pounders we made to fight

[00:02:19] God Damn them all I was told

[00:02:20] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:02:21] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:02:23] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

[00:02:25] The last of Barrett's privateers

[00:02:26] The Yankee lay low down with gold

[00:02:28] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:02:31] She was broad and fat and loose in the stays

[00:02:34] But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days

[00:02:39] God Damn them all I was told

[00:02:41] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:02:43] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:03:17] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

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[00:03:21] Then at length we stood two cables away

[00:03:22] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:03:24] Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din

[00:03:25] But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in

[00:03:27] God Damn them all I was told

[00:03:30] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:03:32] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:03:35] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

[00:03:38] The last of Barrett's privateers

[00:03:42] The Antelope shook and pitched on her side

[00:03:44] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:03:47] Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs

[00:03:49] And the maintruck carried off both me legs

[00:03:51] God Damn them all I was told

[00:03:54] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:03:57] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:04:01] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

[00:04:03] The last of Barrett's privateers

[00:04:06] So here I lay in my twenty-third year

[00:04:08] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

[00:04:10] It's been six years since we sailed away

[00:04:13] And I just made Halifax yesterday

[00:04:15] God Damn them all I was told

[00:04:17] We'd cruise the seas for American gold

[00:04:20] We'd fire no guns shed no tears

[00:04:24] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier

[00:04:25] The last of Barrett's privateers