Post by JD Black on May 21, 2006 14:01:19 GMT -5
Whether male or female, pirates make a living looting from others. Despite their seemingly black-hearted natures, these scoundrels, crooks and liars live by their own rules, and are controlled by their greatest desire–freedom! They lust for life and are willing to do whatever it takes to become rich in wealth and love. Brave and adventurous, pirates face starvation and abysmal, filthy living conditions. And, of course, they must live with the sea's treachery and deceit, a force not even a pirate can control! Scary and scarred, the pirate is unpredictable, fiery and treacherous. And, like all thieves, they are scoundrels and liars at heart!
In the misty ocean breeze,
we set to sail the open Seas, tonight.
Stalking our prey from an eye scope away,
till the captain will say, attack with all our might.
Terror on the water,
feared by all who sail and together,
we'll never fail.
Hey! Our destiny, so hail, hail,
Terror of the Sea.
We pledge allegiance one and all,
with Ali Raja in the morning sky.
We rape and we kill, we take what we will,
we live by the sword and by the sword we'll die.
Terror on the water,
feared by all who sail and together,
we'll never fail.
Hey! Our destiny, so hail, hail,
Terror of the Sea.
Make the prisoners walk the plank
and laugh about their ships we sank, to Hell.
We stab and we slash,
as we swing from the mass,
make a cannonball splash,
for all shipmates who fell.
When a pirate ship was hailed in mid-ocean by another passing ship, and asked who she was and whence she came, the traditional pirate reply was: "From the Seas."
Many of the men were from the crews of merchant ships, either forced into service or volunteered to keep their neck. Some were deserters of the Navy or ex-military men looking for employment. Why so many willingly turning to the life of pirates? Why endure the hardship of being a pirate, especially since being a pirate was punishable by death -- hanging? Life aboard a merchant ship or in the Navy was brutal. Discipline was harsh and severe. The more known punishments aboard ships were keelhauling (being scraped across the barnacles on a ship's bottom), walking the plank, going through a gauntlet, hanging, being dunked in the sea or towed from the yardarms flogged with a rawhide whip or beaten with a cane. In some cases an officer might dip a rope in tar and flog the sailor. Other punishment that sailors endured that is not spoken of much is eating bugs, such as thingyroaches, physical beatings, jamming a sailors mouth with iron bolts. All this created a hatred for authority, the common bond of pirates.
In the misty ocean breeze,
we set to sail the open Seas, tonight.
Stalking our prey from an eye scope away,
till the captain will say, attack with all our might.
Terror on the water,
feared by all who sail and together,
we'll never fail.
Hey! Our destiny, so hail, hail,
Terror of the Sea.
We pledge allegiance one and all,
with Ali Raja in the morning sky.
We rape and we kill, we take what we will,
we live by the sword and by the sword we'll die.
Terror on the water,
feared by all who sail and together,
we'll never fail.
Hey! Our destiny, so hail, hail,
Terror of the Sea.
Make the prisoners walk the plank
and laugh about their ships we sank, to Hell.
We stab and we slash,
as we swing from the mass,
make a cannonball splash,
for all shipmates who fell.
When a pirate ship was hailed in mid-ocean by another passing ship, and asked who she was and whence she came, the traditional pirate reply was: "From the Seas."
Many of the men were from the crews of merchant ships, either forced into service or volunteered to keep their neck. Some were deserters of the Navy or ex-military men looking for employment. Why so many willingly turning to the life of pirates? Why endure the hardship of being a pirate, especially since being a pirate was punishable by death -- hanging? Life aboard a merchant ship or in the Navy was brutal. Discipline was harsh and severe. The more known punishments aboard ships were keelhauling (being scraped across the barnacles on a ship's bottom), walking the plank, going through a gauntlet, hanging, being dunked in the sea or towed from the yardarms flogged with a rawhide whip or beaten with a cane. In some cases an officer might dip a rope in tar and flog the sailor. Other punishment that sailors endured that is not spoken of much is eating bugs, such as thingyroaches, physical beatings, jamming a sailors mouth with iron bolts. All this created a hatred for authority, the common bond of pirates.