"Ahoy, me hearty!"

Originally posted by pulu2
today is a "International Talk Like a Pirate Day". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_like_a_pirate_day

Let's raise a bottle rhum and shake that wooden leg!

It's also Jewish New Year, I think. I have hopes of the local convent bringing out Fiddler on the Yard-Arm this year.

Originally posted by catfoodtim
Perfect.

I'm looking for some likely lads to man a ship on the Barbary Coast.

High Barbaree
Look ahead, look astern, look the weather in the lee,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
There is a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee
Sailing down along the coast of High Barbaree
Are you a privateer or a man of war cried we
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
I am a lusty pirate ship come a lookin' for my fee
Sailing down along the coast of High Barbaree
Broadside and broadside we fought along the main
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
Until at last the frigate shot the pirate's mast away
Sailing down along the coast of High Barbaree
With cutlass and gun oh we fought for hours three
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
The ship it was their coffin and the grave it was the sea
Sailing down along the coast of High Barbaree
For quarter, for quarter, the saucy pirate's cried
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
But the quarters that we showed them was to sink them in the tide
Sailing down along the coast of High Barbaree
And though it was a cruel sight and grieved us full sore
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
To see them all a'drownin' as they tried to swim ashore
Sailing down along the coast of High Barbaree