eraserhead
06/14/07, 08:44 AM
haha ok, story behind this song: I was at a campfire with some buddies last night, I brought my guitar out and somehow we ended up ad-libbing songs about anything we could think of (Stalin, turtles, the Confederacy, etc). Eventually we settled on this pirate idea. Eventually we found a chorus, and then some verses, and then a bridge, and suddenly we had written a fucking song about pirates. I went home and fleshed out the whole thing, fixed up the chord progression, added some verses, extended the bridge, and came up with "Wenches for nothing and the booty's for free." Needless to say, this is not serious at all, and yes it's very stupid but we had a lot of fun with it. So here it is.
VERSE
I be a pirate, it's a great life indeed
You get the wenches for nothing, and the booty's for free
But life can hard, when you're always out at sea,
You'll end up with scurvy, with no Vitamin C
The thing about pirates is, we don't give no quarter
We'll sucker punch your wife, and then go after ye daughter
Just look at this stubble, I don't need no Mach 3
The Cap'n hasn't shaved since 1503
CHORUS
Yo ho, pirates we be
We gonna be plunderin' the Seven Seas
Yo ho, pirates we be
Wenches for nothing and the booty's for free.
VERSE
I was talking to a swabber, just the other day
He said "I be tired o' poop swabbin', I need me some pay."
Well with my trusty hook hand, I sliced off his ear
I said "Well now you look stupid--and no pay for a year!"
I busted me pegleg in a knothole on the deck
It hurt like a mother, I near broke me damn neck
I said to the first mate, "Get your arse over here,"
"And if you ain't got no medicine, grab me a beer!"
CHORUS
VERSE
Johnny Depp's got nothin' on our motley crew
We'd slice out his garters and use them for soup
And don't even get me started on Orlando Bloom
We'd hang that little pansy by his Fruit of the Loom
Shiver me timbers, and walk the plank
Break out the hogshead, and hand me my shank
They say being a pirate is the greatest, and I must agree,
Wenches for nothing and the booty's for free.
BRIDGE
Well one night at sea, there was a hard storm
Our beloved first mate fell overboard
In a cruel twist of fate, he landed on a shark
The thing bit his head off and swam away in the dark
His body washed up on shore the next day
It was eaten by wolverines, much to our dismay
We'll miss that poor laddie, a victim of the sea...
Yo ho ho ho, more booty for me!
CHORUS until end.
Imagine the whole thing sung in a gruff pirate voice (except for the bridge, which is sung in a very sweet voice minus the last line), and the chorus being yelled by about 12 guys in their best drunken sing-a-long voices, all accompanied by an acoustic guitar playing G C and D chords over and over again, and you have the song.
VERSE
I be a pirate, it's a great life indeed
You get the wenches for nothing, and the booty's for free
But life can hard, when you're always out at sea,
You'll end up with scurvy, with no Vitamin C
The thing about pirates is, we don't give no quarter
We'll sucker punch your wife, and then go after ye daughter
Just look at this stubble, I don't need no Mach 3
The Cap'n hasn't shaved since 1503
CHORUS
Yo ho, pirates we be
We gonna be plunderin' the Seven Seas
Yo ho, pirates we be
Wenches for nothing and the booty's for free.
VERSE
I was talking to a swabber, just the other day
He said "I be tired o' poop swabbin', I need me some pay."
Well with my trusty hook hand, I sliced off his ear
I said "Well now you look stupid--and no pay for a year!"
I busted me pegleg in a knothole on the deck
It hurt like a mother, I near broke me damn neck
I said to the first mate, "Get your arse over here,"
"And if you ain't got no medicine, grab me a beer!"
CHORUS
VERSE
Johnny Depp's got nothin' on our motley crew
We'd slice out his garters and use them for soup
And don't even get me started on Orlando Bloom
We'd hang that little pansy by his Fruit of the Loom
Shiver me timbers, and walk the plank
Break out the hogshead, and hand me my shank
They say being a pirate is the greatest, and I must agree,
Wenches for nothing and the booty's for free.
BRIDGE
Well one night at sea, there was a hard storm
Our beloved first mate fell overboard
In a cruel twist of fate, he landed on a shark
The thing bit his head off and swam away in the dark
His body washed up on shore the next day
It was eaten by wolverines, much to our dismay
We'll miss that poor laddie, a victim of the sea...
Yo ho ho ho, more booty for me!
CHORUS until end.
Imagine the whole thing sung in a gruff pirate voice (except for the bridge, which is sung in a very sweet voice minus the last line), and the chorus being yelled by about 12 guys in their best drunken sing-a-long voices, all accompanied by an acoustic guitar playing G C and D chords over and over again, and you have the song.