Pirate's Chorus

DESCRIPTION: "Ever by happy and light as thou art, Pride of the Pirate's heart! Long be thy reign o'er land and main, By the glaive, by the chart, Queen of the Pirate's heart." The rest of the song mostly rearranges these words
AUTHOR: Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) (source: Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1845 (opera The Enchantress, according to Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs); also in some versions of the Forget-Me-Not Songster
KEYWORDS: pirate nonballad
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Heart-Songs, p. 237, "Pirates' Chorus" (1 text, 1 tune)
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 56, "Pirate's Chorus" (1 text, 1 tune; #33 in the first edition)
Roud #31314
File: FrPi056

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