Arrrrr !

[andyball]

Yesterday was the 2nd "International talk like a pirate day".....and afaik you lot missed it ?

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[Sarum28]

No I celebrated it and gave it loads of "to be or not to be ahha jim lad".
50 points if you can name the not necessarily recent TV series that quote is from.

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[andyball]

I had to look it up, though I knew from somewhere....but H h hhancock's half hour ?

"To be, or not to be: that is the question: Ha Haar!
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Jim Lad
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing end them?"

Marvellous

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[AuntyRinum]

I talked pirate most of the day. Shark meat the lotta ya! Ahaar.

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[Sarum28]

Andyball I'm impressed

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[Twister_Ken]

Sing like a pirate (long)

From Emerson Lake and Palmer, Album "Works"

Who'll make his mark
The Captain cried
To the Devil drink a toast
We'll glut the hold
With cups of gold
And we'll feed the sea with ghosts
I see your hunger for a fortune
Could be better
Served beneath my flag
If you've the stomach
For a broadside
Come aboard my pretty boys
I will take you and make you
Everything you've ever dreamed

Make fast the guns tonight we sail
When the high tide floods the bay
Cut free the lines
And square the yards
Get the black flag stowed away
The Turk the Arab and the Spaniard
Will soon have pennies on their eyes
And any other laden fancy
We will take her by surprise
I will take you and make you
Everything you've ever dreamed

Six days off the Cuban coast
When a sail ahead they spied
A Galleon of the treasure fleet
The mizzen lookout cried
Closer to the wind my boys
The mad eyed Captain roared
For every man that's alive tonight
Will be hauling gold aboard

Spare us the galleon begged
But mercy's face had fled
Blood ran from the screaming souls
The cutlass harvested

Driven to the quarter deck
The last survivor fell
She's ours my boys
The Captain grinned
And no one left to tell

The Captain rose from a silk divan
With a pistol in his fist
And shot the lock from an iron box
And a blood red ruby kissed
I give you jewelry of turquoise
A crucifix of solid gold
One hundred thousand silver pieces
It is just as I foretold
You, you see there before you
Everything you've ever dreamed

Anchored in an indigo moonlit bay
Gold eyed 'round fires
The sea thieves lay
Morning, white shells
And a pipe of clay
As the wind filled their footprints
They were far, far away

Our sails swell full
As we brave all seas
On a westward wind
To live as we please
With the wicked wild eyed woman
Of Portobello town
Where we've been told
That a purse of gold
Buys any man a crown

They will serve you and cloth you
Exchange your rags
For the velvet coats of kings
Who'll drink a toast with me
I give you liberty
This town is ours - tonight

Landlord wine
And make it the finest
Make it a cup for a sea dogs thirst
Two long years of bones and beaches
Fever and leaches did their worst
So fill the night with paradise
Bring me peach and peacock
'Till I burst

But first, I want a soft touch
In the right place
I want to feel like a king tonight

Ten on the black
To beat the Frenchman
Back you dogs
Give them room to turn
Now open wide sweet Heavens gate
Tonight were gonna
See if Heaven burns

I want an angel on a gold chain
And I'll ride her to the stars
It's the last time
For a long, long time
Come the daybreak we embark
On the flood of the morning tide
Once more the ocean cried

This company will return one day
Though we feel your tears
It's the price we pay
For there's prizes to be taken
And glory to be found
Cut free the chains
Make fast your souls
We are eldorado bound

I will take you
For always, forever, together
Until Hell calls our names
Who'll drink a toast with me
To the Devil and the deep blue sea
Gold drives a man to dream


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[AuntyRinum]

A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and they take turns telling of their

adventures on the high seas. The seaman notes that the pirate has a

peg-leg, hook, and eye patch and asks, "So, how did you end up with the

peg-leg?"

The pirate replies, "We were in a storm at sea and I was swept overboard

into a school of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit me

leg off." "Wow!" said the seaman. "What about your hook?"

"Well ...." replied the pirate, "We were boarding an enemy ship and were

battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut me hand off."

"Incredible!" remarked the seaman. "And how did you get the eye patch?"

"A seagull dropping fell into me eye," replied the pirate.

"You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?" the sailor asked incredulously.

"Well," said the pirate, "it was me first day with the hook."



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[nicho]

Re: Sing like a pirate (long)

Er, does this sound a bit like our proposed trip to Cherbourg next week, Ken??

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[BoatlessinOslo]

Re: Sing like a pirate (long)

.... or "The tomahawk kid" by the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, don't have the full text but ....

".... 15 men on a dead man's chest in a cave on Treasure Island ...."

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[Bejasus]

Now yer talkin.............

SAHB in there younger days with my mate Zal.

A real band of troubador rockers!!

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[Bejasus]

The Tomahawk Kid..........

Oh, the Tomahawk Kid,
Do you know what he did
On a cave on Treasure Island?
Sixteen men on a dead man's chest
Didn't know where to find him.

When we set sail across the seven seas,
There was Captain Dan, Billy Bones, and me...
and the Tomahawk Kid.

Full fathom five, the Kid is alive!
And the crew was climbin' up the rigging,
Washed on land, on the silver sand,
We got no time for digging!

When we set sail across the seven seas,
There was Captain Dan, Billy Bones, and me...
and the Tomahawk Kid.

Yo Ho Ho,
Yo Ho Ho,
Yo Ho Ho,
Let me hold my captain,
And I'll hold your hairy hand,
Let's forget the treasure,
We can skip across the sand!

The Tomahawk Kid, you know what he did,
He hung his head in sorrow.
No treasure chest, he did his best,
He gonna come back tomorrow.

When we set sail across the seven seas,
There was Captain Dan, Billy Bones, and me...
and the Tomahawk Kid.



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[Twister_Ken]

Re: Sing like a pirate (long)

Any friend of SAHB is a friend of mine. Let me buy you a virtual pint, Boatless.

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[BoatlessinOslo]

Re: The Tomahawk Kid..........

Great band, great music !!

Yer dont get bands like that these days but yer tell the youngsters of today, and they wont believe you, they wont .......

Went to see them at Newcastle City Hall ca. 75

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[BoatlessinOslo]

Re: The Tomahawk Kid..........

PS Thanks for the lyrics

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[BoatlessinOslo]

Re: Sing like a pirate (long)

Thanks TK, please consider it accepted and quoffed

Lucky you couldn't offer to buy a real one here, I don't think you would like the 2nd marine mortgage necessary to srvice the debt :-(

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[jhr]

Re: The Tomahawk Kid..........

Never forgotten their classic appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test when Alex Harvey who was somewhat, ahem, "refreshed" at the time, clambered up a ladder and sprayed "Vambo rools OK" across the studio wall between numbers.

A great man, and an inspiring lesson to us all on the subject of growing old disgracefully. RIP.

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[BoatlessinOslo]

Re: The Tomahawk Kid..........

Ahhhhh!

Whispering Bob, that brings back mammaries although he would pobably not even be allowed within 10 miles of THE CENTRE these days.

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[jhr]

Whispering Bob

He's been banished to Radio 2, where he whiles away his time playing C&W, which was always his first love.

I rather went off him when, after a storming performance of "In every Dream Home, a Heartache" on the Whistle Test, he dismissed Roxy Music as not his kind of thing at all.

But I am showing my age.............

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[Aja]

Too Long

Like everything else ELP did?

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[Bejasus]

Re: The Tomahawk Kid..........

With the 3 violinists wearing gorilla heads.

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