The Ballad Of Patch Eye And Meg

Remembering back when I was a kid

I'd sneak down to the docks

I'd watch the old men carving wood

I'd watch the sailors tying knots

But the thing I remember best

Was grey-haired old Patch Eye

And the stories that he'd tell me about

His younger days as we

Watched the ships go by

He'd talk about his missing eye

He would talk about his wooden leg

But he'd never talk about the old tatoo

On his right arm that said 'Meg'

He said he was captain of a pirate ship

Sailing seas both blue and green

And he said that all pirates gots to have a patch

So's they can look real mean

He'd make the bad guys walk the plank

The pretty ladies, he would save

Then he'd take the treasures from the ship

Then sink it to a watery grave

He'd talk about his missing eye

He'd talk about his wooden leg

But he'd never talk about the old tattoo

Or brown-haired blue-eyed 'Meg'

He told many a story about his wooden leg

As he sat there spinning yarns

Once he'd lost it to a mamba snake

Down in the Amazon

Another time it was way out west

In a gunfight, or so he said, but

That's alright, a man's got two legs

Y'know, he could've lost his head...

He told me all about his missing eye

He told me all about his wooden leg

But he took the story to the grave

About the tattoo that said 'Meg'

He told me how he lost his eye

And how he lost his leg

But he never told me how he lost the love

Of brown haired blue eyed Meg