Low, Black Schooner, The

DESCRIPTION: "A wet sheet and a flowing sea.... Come, raise the sparkling can, Sound the toast, each bold mess through, Huzza for our low black craft, my boys, and her noble pirate crew." "We make each trader ay toll, For pirates bold are we"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1845 (The Pirate's Songster, according to Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
KEYWORDS: pirate travel derivative nonballad
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 71, "The Low, Black Schooner" (1 text, 1 tune; #45 in the first edition)
Roud #V25663
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Britannia on Our Lee" (lyrics, tune)
File: FrPi071

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