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She was a pirate ship, left alone at sea,
They swore they would never see their home again;
She was a pirate ship, raped the foreign shores,
Came unto a growler, now she'll take no more.
In 1856 she set upon the sea,
With the king's own seal, the pride of the navy;
Both fierce and loyal to their king and their home,
The wind it took the sail and they set out for the Horn.
She was a pirate ship, left alone at sea,
They swore they would never see their home again;
She was a pirate ship, raped the foreign shores,
Came unto a growler, now she'll take no more.
It was two years later, both tired and beaten down,
Only half survived the scurvy and they'd twice run aground;
The captain was dead, the first mate, too,
It seemed that only children now made the crew.
She was a pirate ship, left alone at sea,
They swore they would never see their home again;
She was a pirate ship, raped the foreign shores,
Came unto a growler, now she'll take no more.
O'Malley was the oldest at nineteen years,
He knew they must be sharp they must overcome their fears;
Made skull and bones from his king's own flag,
It was their only hope in this savage-filled land.
She was a pirate ship, left alone at sea,
They swore they would never see their home again;
She was a pirate ship, raped the foreign shores,
Came unto a growler, now she'll take no more.
For twenty-seven years they struck along the coast,
They could not be defeated, some thought she was a ghost;
Till the fears of their past should rise up from the deep,
And drag her to the bottom of the stormy seas.
From the Dictionary Of Newfoundland English:
Growler - a piece of floating ice especially hazardous to vessels because of its instability or indeterminate size.
