Barrett's Privateers

Barrett's Privateers Lyrics

Song Barrett's Privateers
Artist Alestorm
Album Back Through Time
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[00:00.47] Oh, the year was seventeen seventy eight
[00:03.49] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[00:06.10] A letter of marque came from the King
[00:08.41] To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen
[00:09.85] God Damn them all! I was told
[00:12.59] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[00:14.78] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[00:17.02] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[00:21.52] The last of Barrett's privateers
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[00:25.39] Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town
[00:27.32] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[00:30.14] For twenty brave men, all fishermen, who
[00:32.45] Would make for him the Antelope's crew
[00:34.51] God Damn them all! I was told
[00:36.88] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[00:41.93]
[00:42.50] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[00:46.00] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[00:50.32]
[00:51.20] The last of Barrett's privateers
[00:54.13] The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight
[00:56.69] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[01:01.68] She'd a list to port and her sails in rags
[01:06.30]
[01:07.11] And a cook in the scuppers with and staggers jags
[01:08.98] God Damn them all! I was told
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[01:30.56] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[01:33.14] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[01:35.83] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[01:38.22] The last of Barrett's privateers
[01:39.79] On the King's birthday we put to sea
[01:42.79] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[01:45.54] We were ninety-one days to Montego bay
[01:48.40] Pumping like madmen all the way
[01:51.03] God Damn them all! I was told
[01:53.71]
[01:55.08] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[01:57.14] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[01:59.89] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[02:01.95] The last of Barrett's privateers
[02:04.25] On the ninety-sixth day we sailed again
[02:07.83] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[02:12.40] When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
[02:14.65] With our cracked four-pounders we made to fight
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[02:19.08] God Damn them all! I was told
[02:20.45] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[02:21.70] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[02:23.19] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[02:25.00] The last of Barrett's privateers
[02:26.27] The Yankee lay low down with gold
[02:28.45] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[02:31.15] She was broad and fat and loose in the stays
[02:34.14] But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
[02:39.51] God Damn them all! I was told
[02:41.69] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[02:43.07] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[02:44.72]
[03:17.93] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[03:20.06] The last of Barrett's privateers
[03:21.12] Then at length we stood two cables away
[03:22.62] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[03:24.30] Our cracked four-pounders made an awful din
[03:25.67] But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
[03:27.67] God Damn them all! I was told
[03:30.04] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[03:32.16] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[03:35.35] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[03:38.20] The last of Barrett's privateers
[03:40.74]
[03:42.55] The Antelope shook and pitched on her side
[03:44.67] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[03:47.80] Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
[03:49.88] And the maintruck carried off both me legs
[03:51.75] God Damn them all! I was told
[03:54.70] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[03:57.34] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[04:01.39] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[04:03.76] The last of Barrett's privateers
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[04:06.51] So here I lay in my twenty-third year
[04:08.63] How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now
[04:10.81] It's been six years since we sailed away
[04:13.37] And I just made Halifax yesterday
[04:15.62] God Damn them all! I was told
[04:17.98] We'd cruise the seas for American gold
[04:20.11] We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
[04:24.10] Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
[04:25.91] The last of Barrett's privateers
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