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CAPTAIN BLACKBEARD DID WHAT?
The sea is a-roarin', the sea gulls
they screech,
The bosun he rants and he raves.
And the whole scurvy crew
Says, "It's true, yes it's true,
Ol'
Captain Blackbeard's shaved."
We had buried some treasure (and bodies as well)
And was just sailin' back from the cave,
When
he calls fer boiled water
And stomps down below
An' gor' but he comes up shaved.
There's a chickenish stubble, and
fishbelly skin
On that face, once so blazin' and brave.
And his ol' faithful parrot
Can hardly bear it
Since ol'
Captain Blackbeard shaved.
When he shouts, "Board and sink her!"
It sounds like a clinker
And gets lots of laughs
from the slaves.
And his loud bawdy songs
Seem a little bit wrong
Since ol' Captain Blackbeard shaved.
Now no
one is fearing his look or his lash
Or his threats of a watery grave.
And things ain't the same
In the pirate game
Since
ol' Captain Blackbeard shaved.
By: Shel Silverstein
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