Queen Anne's Revenge

He terrorized the eastern waters for three dreadful

years

His savagery is legendary, His name has lived on

through the ages

Born in the end of the 1600's, his given name was

Edward

One look at him would terrify, Black-Beard is what he

became known as

He made himself look hellish

Framing his face in fire

By placing long lighted matches

Under his hat to strike fear in his prey

He'd hide his ship and lay in waiting for some

unsuspecting vessel

He'd attack with such ferocity, No one ever acted so

fiercely

He carried three bracers of pistols, had lots of rum

for all his men

When things got slow he'd stir thing up, By shooting

his guns in his dark cabin

They say he had fourteen wives

And a governor's refuge

He came to shore quite often

He even once took the King's pardon

He raped and murdered the innocent

He was the terror that sailed the sea

Along the mid-Atlantic coast

Black Beard brought horror and misery

So many met with a watery grave

So many ships fell by his hand

His pure brutality knew no bounds

The ocean's devil and his evil band

He had taken such a toll upon the sea

All the people cried for something to be done

Then Virginia's governor had had enough

He sent his own ship to capture him dead or alive

He raped and murdered the innocent

He was the terror that sailed the sea

Along the mid-Atlantic coast

Black Beard brought horror and misery

Then in the year 1718

On November twenty first

Near the Ocracoke Inlet

Twenty-five wounds ended his blood-thirst