Question:
What pirate songs can you think of?
Amy
2006-07-18 14:17:45 UTC
Apart from Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me. And Wierd Beard by the Mad Caddies. Can you think of any more rock/pop songs with a pirate theme, not just sea shanties?
26 answers:
Momoko Ichigo
2006-07-18 14:20:53 UTC
Only one- Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me!!
DEATH
2006-07-18 21:22:04 UTC
Oh well, no sea shanties...then you're outta luck buddy.



Good luck!



I know a lot of Punk bands used to do Punk versions of Sea Shanties.



I have a huge list of Sea Shanties I personally know...you could do a punk arrangement on some of them:



A Hundred Years Ago

Aweigh, Santy Ano

The Black Ball Line

Blow the Man Down

Blow Boys, Blow!

Boney Was a Warrior

The Coasts of High Barbary

The Dead Horse

The Dreadnought

Drunken Sailor

Eliza Lee

Fire Down Below

The Fish of the Sea

The Golden Vanity

Hanging Johnny

Haul Away, Joe! (1)

Haul Away, Joe! (2)

Holy Ground Once More

Homeward Bound

The Lass of Swansea Town

Leave Her, Johnny

Maid of Amsterdam

New York Girls (1)

New York Girls (2)

Old Swansea Town Once More

On Board the Kangaroo

One More Day

The Ox-Eyed Man

Paddy Doyle's Boots

Paddy, Get Back

Paddy West

Reuben Ranzo

The Rio Grande

Rolling Home

The Sailor's Loves

Sally Brown

The Saucy Sailor Boy

Shenandoah

Storm Along

We'll Rant and We'll Roar

We're All Bound to Go

Whisky Johnnie

Won't You Go My Way?

Yankee Whalermen

Admiral Benbow

Andrew Bartin

The Arethusa

The Bay of Biscay

The Bay of Biscay, O!

Ben Backstay (1)

Ben Backstay (2)

Bold Nelson's Praise

The Bold Princess Royal

The Bonny Ship The Diamond

Captain Kidd

Chesapeake and Shannon

The Constitution and the Guerriere

The Glasgow

Heart of Oak

Henry Martin

The Isle of France

It's of a Sailor Bold

Johnny Todd

The Jolly Young Waterman

Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze

Lord Franklin

The Low, Low Lands of Holland

Married to a Mermaid

The Mermaid

On Board a Ninety-Eight

Paul Jones

The Pirate Song

Quare Bungle Rye

The Rambling Sailor

Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark

Sir Patrick Spence

Sir Peter Parker

The Tarpaulin Jacket

Then Farewell, My Tridonotuse-Built Wherry

Three Fishers

Toll For the Brave

Tom Bowling

Tom Tough

Ward the Pirate

We Be Three Poor Mariners

A Wet Sheet and A Flowing Sea

Will Watch

The Yankee Man-of-War

Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low

Can of Grog

Here's to the Grog

Eight Bells

Farewell to Grog

Sling the Flowing Bowl

Nelson's Blood

Rolling Down to Old Maui

Rolling Down to Old Mohee

Billy Taylor

Black-Eyed Susan

Blow the Wind Southerly

A Brisk Young Sailor

Britons, Strike Home

Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze

The Drowned Lover

The Dying Californian

The Fair Sailor Lad

Fair Susan

Farewell to Nova Scotia

The Female Smuggler

Heavy the Beat of the Weary Waves

House Carpenter (English Version)

House Carpenter (Canadian Version)

I Must Live All Alone

Jackaroe

The Keeper of the Eddystone Light

The Lass That Loves A Sailor

The Little Lowland Maid

Lovely Molly

Mary's Dream

Miss Bailey's Ghost

Nancy Lee

The Nightingale

Our Ship She Lies in Harbour

Poor Sally Sits A-Weeping

The Pretty Ploughboy

The Saucy Sailor Boy

Tarry Trousers

The Token

The Valiant Lady

White Wings

William and Mary

William Taylor
gytyyyyggggggggggggggggggggggg
2006-07-18 21:24:58 UTC
Yo-ho Yo ho A pirates Life For Me -Jonas Brothers
power_of_me123
2006-07-18 21:37:29 UTC
omg here we go



Pirates- by Brian Lockhart



Throw Em to the Sharks by Stuart Gumbo Walker



Pirate's Song by Rochelle Ratner



The Pirate King from The Pirates of Penzance



last but least



Shiver Me Timbers and Professional Pirate both culled from Muppets Treasure Island



i hope that will do lol
x In Your Ey3s
2006-07-18 21:20:16 UTC
Rum is For Drinking Not For Burning by Senses Fail

Kind of pirate-y I guess =D
fae
2006-07-18 22:44:06 UTC
nope! but I love the theme music to Pirates Of The Caribbean!
2006-07-18 21:29:25 UTC
well the song "rich girl" by gwen stefani has a pirate themed music video and its pretty sweet but other than that cant think of any off the top of my head... hope that helps anyways
Fluke
2006-07-18 21:22:30 UTC
Tempole Tudor. Swords of a Thousand Men. It's got a swashbuckling pirate(ish) feel about it!!
2006-07-18 21:45:20 UTC
The one the UK Labour party sing " The Red Flag " .... the biggest load of pirates you will ever see together.
m.paley
2006-07-18 21:25:33 UTC
Music from captain pugwash - Heigh ho me hearties!

Click the following link for a midi rendition.

http://www.redflag.co.uk/pugwash.htm
guitar4peace
2006-07-18 21:22:09 UTC
"A Pirate Looks at Forty"- Jimmy Buffett

very good song- actually the only Buffett song I love.
2006-07-18 21:21:58 UTC
yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
2006-07-18 21:21:52 UTC
we're going this way that way forwards and backwadrs over the irish sea, a bottle of rum to fill in the tum and that's the life for me
pikapoke_uk
2006-07-18 21:21:47 UTC
Jolly Roger: Adam and the ants
bakkster_man
2006-07-18 21:29:12 UTC
Pirates who don't do Anything - Reliant K



Very tounge-in-cheek, very ridiculous.
2006-07-18 21:23:00 UTC
on the good ship lolly pop

jolly roger

sailing

giveme all your money&

pirates of penzants
uhohspaghettiohohs
2006-07-18 21:21:09 UTC
well

theres a metal band - Mutiny

and theres a song..

Rum is for drinking, not burning
dogbob
2006-07-18 21:38:55 UTC
Jolly roger. Adam and the ants.
enigma_variation
2006-07-18 21:23:10 UTC
i predict a pirate- the kaiser chiefs



anything by Dr (Captain) Hook
mesun1408
2006-07-18 21:23:42 UTC
space shanty
mnkebut
2006-07-18 21:29:21 UTC
beastie boys rymin and stealin from licensed to ill
2006-07-18 21:20:47 UTC
friggin in the riggin
2006-07-18 21:22:28 UTC
the one about the bottle of rum...but then again they're all about bottles of rum...
clarkesboy
2006-07-18 21:46:41 UTC
what about RUM SODOMY AND THE LASH by the POUGES
2006-07-18 21:28:25 UTC
eye eye captain ;-)
SammyD
2006-07-18 21:21:14 UTC
none


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