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Today I’ll be hung by the gallows at noon

For many they say my death can’t come too soon

For a buccaneer’s life is the one that I’ve led

Was wedded to freedom but today I’ll be dead

My ship was a schooner Empress was her name

We sailed for adventure, for fortune and fame

We raided the galleons and the ports and the town

But the navy lay lurking as we drank the rum down

They set fire to my ship, then my back met their whip

As they shackled me towards my doom

Then they imprisoned me here, I’ve waited a year

Now my dying day finally has come

I’ll be dancing the hempen jig today

For my crimes I’m about to pay

With a rope ‘neath my chin I’ll face death with a grin

And I’ll sway in the wind while the tide’s rushing in

I’ll be dancing the hempen rope jig

At the trial I stood with the rest of my crew

And in our defense there was not we could do

For the charges were long against us buccaneers bold

The crimes of a lifetime full of thirsting for gold

There was mutiny, piracy, thievery and more

Since we pillaged and plundered the ports by the score

We’d sacked every town and each port that we crossed

Taken their booty and left them to rot

There was fear in my gut as the jury stood up

Their verdict was not a surprised

Then the sentence passed down from the judge and the crown

With a cruel sort glint in his eyes

All those nights I spent drinking beneath the stars

They’ve been replaced with chains and with bars

And my riches and fame have been taken away

And replaced with a dread for a buccaneer’s life I have led

On the gallows I stand, soon I’ll take up death’s hand

Three times I’ll be washed by the sea

With my corpse bathed in tar I’ll serve warning to all

Death’s coming to pirates like me

I was free for so long but did too much shit wrong

Now the rope’s ‘neath my chin, take my final breath in

I’m dancing the hempen rope jig

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