Barrett's Privateers-Alestorm

[ti:Barrett's Privateers] [ar:Alestorm] [al:Back Through Time] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.47]Oh the year was seventeen seventy eight [00:02.98] [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 staggers and 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