[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
[00:23.89]
[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
[01:11.37]
[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
[02:17.51]
[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
[04:05.51]
[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