'Pirates of the Caribbean' belongs to Disney.
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BECKETT'S PRIVATEERS
(Written for the Song Prompt Challenge at the Captain Jack Sparrow Community)
Oh, the year was seventeen-something-three...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
When a letter of marque came from the King
To the finest ship that ever I've seen,
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Jones take them all! I was told
We'd confiscate the pirates' gold,
We'd vanquish our foe, brag for years...
Now I'm a broken man on a Caribe pier,
The last of Beckett's privateers!
Lord Cutler Beckett cried the town...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
For fifty brave men, all navymen, who
Would make for him Endeavour's crew,
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The Endeavour was a splendid sight...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
With stripe-ed sides and her sails full white,
Three tiers of cannon, shot and might,
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On the King's birthday we put to sea...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
We were sixty-three days to Shipwreck Isle,
Our great armada stretched for miles!
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On the sixty-fourth day the foe emerged...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
Then a bloody great maelstrom cleaved the sea,
Our mighty Dutchman plunged inside with glee!
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The accursed Black Pearl followed her in...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
Led by the slyest bird the ocean's known,
Those buccaneers sent our Dutchman down!
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So we closed to end Jack Sparrow there...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
Our Dutchman rose, we gave a cheer-
But that damn-ed turncoat smote us unawares!
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The Endeavour was raked with matched broadsides...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
Lord Beckett was flung like a broken doll
And the blast removed my manhood all!
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So here I sit in my twenty-fifth year...
I wish I'd stayed in London town!
It's been three years since we sailed away,
And I just made Port Royal yesterday!
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Based on 'Barrett's Privateers', by Stan Rogers