We were schooner rigged and rakish with a long and lissome hull
And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skull
We’d 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
We’d a long brass gun amidships like a well-conducted ship
We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip
It’s 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 people’s 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…
And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skull
We’d 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
We’d a long brass gun amidships like a well-conducted ship
We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hip
It’s 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 people’s 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…
Loch'd and Loaded
- Nessie
- Raise the Banner
- Lassie / Roamin' in the G..
- Pickled
- Memories of Old Pa Fogert..
- Wild Cattieyote
- Whiskey Scotch Whiskey
- Scots 'Round the World
- Bitch Off the Money
- Gi' Us a Dram
- Donald Where's Yer Troose..
- Flower of Scotland
- Swords of a Thousand Men
- Bonnie Mary
- Ballad of John Silver
- Death of a Space Piper
The Real McKenzies texty
- 1. Chip
- 2. Bugger Off
- 3. The Tempest
- 4. Drink Some More
- 5. Barrett's Privateers
- 6. Farewell To Nova Scotia
- 7. I Do What I Want
- 8. Smokin' Bowl
- 9. Wild Mountain Thyme
- 10. I Hate My Band