High Barbary from Festival Wind by Alexander James Adams

HIGH BARBARY
Traditional Arranged by Heather Alexander

Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee,
BLOW HIGH, BLOW LOW, AND SO SAILED WE!
I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee,
ASAILIN' DOWN ALONG THE COAST OF HIGH BARBARY!

"Are you a privateer, or a man-o-war?" cried we,
"I am a lusty pirate ship come lookin' for my fee!"

For broadside, for broadside, we fought along the main,
Until at last the frigate shot the pirate's mast away-

With cutlass and gun, oh, we fought for hours three,
The ship, it was their coffin, and their grave, it was the sea-

"For quarter, for quarter!" the saucy pirates cried,
But the quarter that we showed them was to sink them in the tide!

And oh, twas a cruel sight, and grieved us full sore,
To see them all a-drownin' as they tried to swim ashore-

Sea Fire Productions Inc c&p 2003

• Alexander James Adams
• Alternative
• celtic
• fantasy folk
• Redmond