HARRI WEBB.
Rampage & Revel
The Pirate King
Black is the flag of the pirate,
And black is Barti's beard,
Of all the corsair captains
The bravest and most feared.
Second mate on the Princess
And at first an honest man,
But when his ship was taken
'Twas then his fame began.
For the villains who had captured him
soon elected him to lead,
And valiantly he captained them
In many a bloody deal.
He took on forty Portuguese
And cut out their richest prize
And boldly sailed away with her
Before their heathen eyes.
And when he reached Newfoundland's shore
There were twenty sail to one
But all their crews abandoned ship
Before he'd fired a gun.
In North and South America
And Africa as well
He struck with all his cut-throat crew
Like demons out of hell.
He captured a tall frigate,
A monarch of the sea,
And he named her Royal Fortune,
For he fared right royally.
Till one day off Cape Lopez
He was cornered and hove to,
Good Captain Ogle captured him
And all his evil crew.
He fought till he could fight no more,
Then, in all his finery
He went to hell as a pirate should
And was cast into the sea.
And that was the end of Blackbeard
And his bloodthirsty career
And peaceful merchantmen could sail
The seas and know no fear.
But of all the bully buccaneers
Who from all the yardarms swing
Black Barti out of Pembrokeshire,
He was the Pirate King!
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