PIRATE SHIP
Jim Feehan

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She was a pirate ship

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Left alone at sea

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They swore they would never

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See their home again

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She was a pirate ship

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Raped the foreign shores

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Came unto a growler

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Now she’ll take no more

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In 1856 she set upon the sea

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With the kings own seal

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The pride of the navy

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Both fierce and loyal

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To their king and their home

The wind it took the sail

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And they set out for the horn

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It was 2 years later

Both tired and beaten down

Only half survived the scurvy

And they’d twice run aground

The captain was dead

The first mate too

It seemed that only children

Now made the crew

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O’Malley was the oldest

At 19 years

He knew they must be sharp

They must overcome their fears

Made scull and bones

From his kings own flag

It was their only hope

In this savage filled land

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For 27 years

They struck along the coast

They could not be defeated

Some thought she was a ghost

Till the fears of their past

Should rise up from the deep

And drag her to the bottom

Of the stormy seas