Betrayal on the Spanish Main

Betrayal on the Spanish Main

Intro:

Yo-ho-ho! Yo-ho-ho! (Repeat lots)

Verse 1:

We join our young hero in a small Caribbean town

His name is Jack the Jack and he never wears a frown

Apprentice for a bootmaker but he longs to be free

For Jack's home is a ship sailing on the open sea

His love is the daughter of a wealthy trading man

And together they conceive a clever privateering plan

They commandeer a ship of his for their own piratey use

Then sail to Tortuga to gather a ferocious piratey crew

CHORUS:

Oh, the pirate's life is hard it's true

But there's nothing I would rather do

The freedom of the open sea

And a cargo hold of stolen booty

By most we're labelled as outlaws

Stealing, fighting, looting without cause

So no-one understands me why

I'll be a pirate till the day I die!

Verse 2:

The trader soon learns of his daughter's betraying act

Even though it's but one small ship of many that he lacks

The actions of the two has raised the father's ire

Now the thirst for justice is his primary desire

The two of them start preying on her father's merchant boats

This salt in the wound really gets the trader's goat

He hires a mercenary cew, the best his money'll get

And he swears upon the Lord above he'll have his vengeance yet

CHORUS

Spoken interlude:

We were moored off the coast of a small jungle island. The

stars were veiled by veiled by clouds, and the horizon by a

thick fog. We kept the island in sight and travelled no further.

An uneasy feeling, dense as the fog around us, cast a blanket of

silence over the crew...

...Judging by the faint light of the moon there were but three

hours 'til dawn, yet none of the crew had slept a wink. Tired but

alert, they kept up their quiet vigil on deck. The silence was

broken with a shouted warning of a large ship slipping through

the fog towards us. The trader Ñ my lover's father Ñ had found us.

I yelled commands to weigh anchor and prepare for battle...

Bridge:

Justice had found us, but we would not run

We would stay and fight till the battle was won

They fired the first round, a few good men were lost

We launched a return volley, oh we'd make them pay the cost

Their ship may have been bigger and thicker in the hull

But ours was sleek and faster, and we flew the dreaded skull

Cannon smoke and fog mixed as the battle raged through the night

I shouted orders to my hardy crew; by God we'd give a fight!

Verse 3:

The mercs run out of cannon fire, yet the pirates were far from dead

But the trader boards Jack's ship and brings the battle to his deck

The swords they clash, the blood it flows, and many a good man falls

While Jack the Jack fights back to back with his lover at the helm

The father confronts the two of them and curses their eternal rest

He aims and fires his pistol at his daughter's ample chest

But Jack, being the hero, dives in and takes the blow

Then collapses quite still and motionless on the wooden planks below

His lover, quite enraged at the death of her sweet Jack

Sheds a single tear and stabs her father from stomach to back

Now overcome with grief, her pretty head begins to swoon

She falls beside his body and prays to join him soon

She wakes at midday to realize that none survived the fight

But turns towards the helm to see that Jack is somehow alright

Without a word she walks over to stand beside her love

And she wraps her arms around him as they sail into the sun

CHORUS