Ballad Of Jon Silver Lyrics - Singles - Real Mckenzies

We were schooner rigged and rakish with a long and lissome hull 

And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skull 

Wed a big black Jolly Roger flappin grimly at the fore 

And we sailed the Spanish waters in the happy days of yore 

So we sailed with booty on the board 

Lived a life of whisky and the sword 

Plundered them and pretty pranks we played 

Laughed at them and then we sailed away 

Wed a long brass gun amidships like a well-conducted ship, 

We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip, 

Its a point that tells against us and a fact to be deplored, 

But we chased the goodly merchant men and laid their ships aboard 

So we sailed with booty on the board 

Lived a life of whisky and the sword 

Plundered them and pretty pranks we played 

Laughed at them and then we sailed away 

Then the dead men fouled the scuppers 

And the wounded filled the chains 

And the paintwork all was spatter-dashed, 

With other peoples brains. 

She was boarded she was looted 

She was scuttled till she sank 

And the pale survivors left us 

By the medium of the plank