The Incredible String Band - Old Buccaneer lyrics
[The Incredible String Band - Old Buccaneer lyrics]
Sissie wouldn't believe when I told her
The old man was gone
The one who lived all alone in
The shack on the shore
That's so hard to find, so hard to go past
He used to light our cigarettes
And never tell anyone
He had blue tattoos and he'd tell us tall
Stories from the bottom of a rum glass
He's got things to see on the Spanish main
He's gone away for awhile
He's gone skullduggering on the Spanish
Main, he's gone away, far away
Thought I heard sails creaking
As the stars paled
Anchor chains clinking as the night failed
Way out on the bay
No one else knows how he crowed when they
Crowned him king of the cannibal isles
Or how he'd really feel blind drunk at
The wheel through a high hurricane
He could dupe the devil at dice and
Charm charmers with his beguiling smile
How he fell in love in Lima and a schemer
Stole his pearly girl and
Broke his heart again
Now all the foes he killed call him
In to fight with their beckoning bones
And all the gold he stole
Sparkles in the morning light
His sweet ladies are all alone
Sissie dear let's not go
Near the church today
The big bells tolling, and
The hearse goes rolling
And the holy joes pray as they lay him away
And he lived one too many winters
Cold cold weather
Had to sail down to the south sea waters warm
His old bones there
Let an old man go through
Let an old man go through
The old man was gone
The one who lived all alone in
The shack on the shore
That's so hard to find, so hard to go past
He used to light our cigarettes
And never tell anyone
He had blue tattoos and he'd tell us tall
Stories from the bottom of a rum glass
He's got things to see on the Spanish main
He's gone away for awhile
He's gone skullduggering on the Spanish
Main, he's gone away, far away
Thought I heard sails creaking
As the stars paled
Anchor chains clinking as the night failed
Way out on the bay
No one else knows how he crowed when they
Crowned him king of the cannibal isles
Or how he'd really feel blind drunk at
The wheel through a high hurricane
He could dupe the devil at dice and
Charm charmers with his beguiling smile
How he fell in love in Lima and a schemer
Stole his pearly girl and
Broke his heart again
Now all the foes he killed call him
In to fight with their beckoning bones
And all the gold he stole
Sparkles in the morning light
His sweet ladies are all alone
Sissie dear let's not go
Near the church today
The big bells tolling, and
The hearse goes rolling
And the holy joes pray as they lay him away
And he lived one too many winters
Cold cold weather
Had to sail down to the south sea waters warm
His old bones there
Let an old man go through
Let an old man go through