For International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Jolly Roger, by Adam and the Ants.
ETA: Arrrr! Buckle me swash, and walk me plank!
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A Pirate’s Life - The Vandals
George Harrison - Pirate Song
Note in the credits: And Introducing George Harrison as “Pirate Bob”.
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
Tierra Santa put music to Espronceda’s Canción del Pirata. It doesn’t get more “pirate song” than that!
Most of their songs are Christian metal, including every single other one in the record that includes the Canción del Pirata.
Bloody Buccaneers by Golden Earring.
And of course there’s an entire genre of metal called Pirate Metal.
The Last Saskatchewan Pirate is pretty popular around here.
I was lucky enough to see PirateFest in Seattle a couple of years ago. Alestorm rocks. Here’s Wenches and Mead which is fun as a recorded song, but one of the few songs I’ve ever felt was better live.
Pirate King, of course!
The Dark Lady (I prefer the Rambling Sailors version, but the recording isn’t as good.)
Ritchie Blackmore - Minstrel Hall // Blackmore’s Night -
I was looking for something by Ritchie Blackmore but this really isn’t his genre. I thought this might make a nice interlude piece.Black Sabbath - Children Of The Sea -
And, of course, the entire “Pirates of Penzance.”
Here’s a young Kevin Kline singing “Pirate King” from The Pirates of Penzance:
Lotte Lenya sings Pirate Jenny
*By noontime the dock
Is a-swarmin’ with men
Comin’ out from the ghostly freighter
They move in the shadows
Where no one can see
And they’re chainin’ up people
And they’re bringin’ em to me
Askin’ me,
“Kill them NOW, or LATER?”
Askin’ ME!
“Kill them now, or later?”
Noon by the clock
And so still by the dock
You can hear a foghorn miles away
And in that quiet of death
I’ll say, “Right now.
Right now!”
Then they’ll pile up the bodies
And I’ll say,
“That’ll learn ya!”*