To the Mast Nail Our Flag: The Pirate's Song

DESCRIPTION: "To the mast nail our flat, It is dark as the grave, Or the death which it bears while it sweeps o'er the wave." When the pirate takes a prize, "It is mine to divide it, and yours to obey." "I only shed blood where another sheds tears."
AUTHOR: Words: "L. E. L." / Music: Horatio D. Hewitt (sheet music cover reproduced by Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1837 ("The Pirate's Own Book," according to Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
KEYWORDS: pirate battle money wine
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 58, "To the Mast Nail Our Flag: The Pirate's Song" (1 text, 1 tune; #53 in the first edition, where it is entitled "The Pirate's Song (II) and has no tune)
Roud #V30577
File: FrPi058B

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