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Pass Around The Rum

by Mighty McGuiggans

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Pass Around The Rum

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

I sailed aboard a merchantman; the captain, he was cruel;
He worked us hard from dawn to dusk on a lousy cup o' gruel.
He'd flog us for the slightest cause, and treat us all like slaves
Until the day we picked him up and tossed him to the waves.

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

What keeps a pirate plundering all the ships upon the sea?
It's our notorious fiscal irresponsibility:
We spend our gold on whores and rum, 'til all of it is spent,
Then it's off to sea to plunder again so we can pay the rent.

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

We like to keep an odd display of pets aboard our ship:
A parrot on the shoulder, or a monkey on the hip.
Alas! It means we have to swab the deck of all the poop,
And if the larder's bare, then they might end up in the soup.

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

We're a godless, lawless, lot of opportunists on the sea;
You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy!
We're savage and unscrupulous, with a ruthless bag of tricks.
In short, we might've made a fine career in politics!

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

The doctor, he's the hardest working member of our crew;
He patches all our severed parts, and anything else askew.
He fights to save our livers, keeps our teeth from turning black,
And keeps our tackles clean when there's an outbreak of the clap.

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

From the isle of Madagascar and New Providence are we:
Tortuga and Port Royal and the coast of Barbary!
A scurrilous lot of psychopathic cutthroat malcontents –
Rather like the kind that run our modern governments!

A pirate's life is not for everyone;
Live hard, live free, and pass around the rum!

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released May 19, 2023

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Mighty McGuiggans Fort Wayne, Indiana

The Mighty McGuiggans combine lively Irish fun with originals, plus tunes from the likes of Flogging Molly, The Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, etc.

Gritty, real and beautiful, like a single malt scotch or a fine stout. Raucous drinking songs, beautiful ballads, hilarious songs that tell a story, & some pirate tunes to boot!

Every day is almost St. Paddy's Day!
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