User blog:Lord Highcliffe/My Poems

The Corsair's Lament
When I was a young ratjack

I joined the crew of the Blackjack

To sail the foaming main

The bos'n was a fat old rat

The Cap'n was called Grimy Nat

But both of them were slain

Ole Cooky Slopp could whop up a stew

That'd lay out 'arf the crew

An' yer'd think yew'd gone insane!

Rigg the fox called a mutiny

Sent the first mate to the bottom of the sea

An' said "He ain't comin' back again!"

One dark night while all were a-bed

We crashed into a reef, they said

An' it caused us so much pain

The ol' Blackjack sank like a stone

None survived but I alone

An' that's when I vowed never again to sail the main!