# Pirate songs
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 19, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365 "2016-09-19T17:45:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/1 "2016-09-19T17:45:08Z")
For International Talk Like A Pirate Day.
[_Jolly Roger_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnXOCXiHHc&feature=share), by Adam and the Ants.
ETA: Arrrr! Buckle me swash, and walk me plank!
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/2 "2016-09-19T17:48:49Z")
[A Pirate’s Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUBRqmXSR8) - The Vandals
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### Author:  [@RobotDevilDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobotDevilDog)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/3 "2016-09-19T18:01:38Z")
George Harrison - [Pirate Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACyZIXkHq0)
Note in the credits: And Introducing George Harrison as “Pirate Bob”.
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### Author:  [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/4 "2016-09-19T18:04:52Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwzRkjn86w)
Stan Rogers - Barrett’s Privateers
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/5 "2016-09-19T18:11:26Z")
Tierra Santa put music to Espronceda’s [Canción del Pirata](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Up6S5lzq0). 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.
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### Author:  [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/6 "2016-09-19T18:13:05Z")
[Bloody Buccaneers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qucCCR6yfw) by Golden Earring.
And of course there’s an entire genre of metal called [Pirate Metal.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal)
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/7 "2016-09-19T18:14:00Z")
[Pour, oh pour the Pirate Sherry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gbrEjj9i4E)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/8 "2016-09-19T18:14:41Z")
[Captain Bogg and Salty’s entire library.](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=captain+bogg+and+salty)
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/9 "2016-09-19T18:21:57Z")
[The Last Saskatchewan Pirate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGGNsE3_8Y) is pretty popular around here.
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### Author:  [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/10 "2016-09-19T18:25:48Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#):
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> And of course there’s an entire genre of metal called [Pirate Metal.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_metal)
I was lucky enough to see PirateFest in Seattle a couple of years ago. Alestorm rocks. Here’s [Wenches and Mead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ef6i9P7y3Y) which is fun as a recorded song, but one of the few songs I’ve ever felt was better live.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/11 "2016-09-19T18:57:00Z")
Two pirate captain songs from my buddies in Tempest:
[Captain Kidd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3msBeI8OX5k)
[Captain Morgan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CMkd0Dudlc)
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/12 "2016-09-19T19:00:33Z")
[A Pirate Looks at Forty](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPYNL5ioo8E)
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/13 "2016-09-19T19:11:38Z")
[Pirate King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7SVMVrick), of course!
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/14 "2016-09-19T20:00:00Z")
[“Pirates”, Emerson, Lake & Palmer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7p86-2mPo)
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/15 "2016-09-19T20:26:08Z")
[The Dark Lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qFwWgBnHQY) (I prefer the [Rambling Sailors version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r455IIcFNjU&t=25s), but the recording isn’t as good.)
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/16 "2016-09-19T21:14:12Z")
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 -
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4E_yrILHcM)
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/17 "2016-09-19T21:57:21Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
>
> [Pour, oh pour the Pirate Sherry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gbrEjj9i4E)
And, of course, the entire “Pirates of Penzance.”
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### Author:  [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/18 "2016-09-19T22:06:57Z")
Here’s a young Kevin Kline singing “Pirate King” from _The Pirates of Penzance_:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7SVMVrick)
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/19 "2016-09-19T22:54:08Z")
[Fifteen Men on a Dead Man’s Chest.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcv5TJkJBA)
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pirate-songs/766365/20 "2016-09-19T22:56:29Z")
Lotte Lenya sings [Pirate Jenny](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFP3x4bKpZE)
\*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!”\*
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