It was somewhere off in
Africa
On a dark and stormy night
A lightning burned our sails away
No harbor was in sight
Our captain was from
Liverpool, our crew from
Forty
Jails
Our ship was made of ebony, with
Chinese sailing sails
Our gunners fired jade cannonballs,
from handmade guns of gold
Our swords were made of silver,
our hearts black as coal
We threw the skull and crossbones,
lived on fire and fear
We took and gave no quarter,
we were
Buccaneers
We fought with ships from many shores,
lived and died as men
Some had seen the face of
God, been once free of sin
We flew the skull and crossbones,
lived on fire and fear
We took and gave no quarter,
we were buccaneers, ooooh
God knows our lives were lonely,
with rare and simple songs
The sharks and other demon
s would have us be for long
And even when we thought of love,
we knew it could not be
The best that we could hope
for was a burial at sea
And it was somewhere off of
Africa, on a dark and a stormy night
The lightning burned our sails away,
no harbor was in sight
We threw the skull and crossbones,
lived on fire and fear
We took and gave no quarter,
we were
Buccaneers
We threw the skull and crossbones,
lived on fire and fear
We took and gave no quarter,
we were
Buccaneers
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