You landsmen all on you I call, you heroes stout and brave That are inclined to cross the sea! your homelands now to leave Come join with Captain Coulston, that hero stout and bold Who fought his way all on the sea and never was controlled.
We sailed away from Liverpool, the weather being fine Bound for New York City boys, it was our chief's design We being all Irish emigrants the truth to you I'll tell Who in distress our homes had left and to Ireland bid farewell.
On the evening of the twenty-fifth our captain he did cry Clear away the deck me boys for a strange sail I do spy And all you Irish emigrants, awake now from your sleep For in a few more hours, me boys, you'll be slumbering in the deep.
For a pirate ship is a-coming down just from the Western Sea For to rob us of our property going to Amerikay.
Oh the pirate ship came up to us and ordered us to stand Your gold and precious cargo this moment I demand Your gold and precious cargo resign to me this day For one living soul you'll never bring unto Amerikay.
Then up and spoke our captain with voice both loud and bold Saying we will slumber in the deep before we'll be controlled Before that we'll surrender our property to thee We'll fight like Irish hearts of oaks and gain the victory.
So the battle it commenced and the firing did begin They wounded the captain's mate and killed two of his men But our Irish boys were valiant and bold and our canons loud did roar And we killed ten of the pirate men and turned them overboard.
Oh the cries of women and children as in the hold they lay And our captain and his gallant crew they showed an Irish play The captain's wife she came on deck saying, “I'll soon end this strife” And with a pistol ball she took the pirate captain's life.
And it's to conclude and finish the truth I'll tell to you Oh, we never lost a single man excepting one or two And the pirate ship surrendered just at the break of day And we brought her as a prisoner unto AmerikayTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
