Ye Banished Privateers For a Fragile Moment's Ease song lyrics

A long way from the mainland forgotten by the crown

There's a cabin by the lookout cliff in this sleepy little town

Where there's laughter in the orchard

And me small'uns run around

And me soul mate sings a lovesong from distant County Down

In a harbor town bordello with the cattle I was raised

This many years ago now and a long way from this place

But to rise up from the gutters, there's a price you have to pay

You tell me, "Was it worth it?" when you've listened to my tale

Cause I have... fallen through the gallows

I've donned a priest man's robe

Got stuck in the windwards shallows with a tackle and a rope

Made an orphan of a keelson, and I've stared a deadeye down

Even bedded with a stern gun and I danced her off the brow

I brought fire down on Bristol

In Portal Royal I have bled

I've swung away me trusted boarding axe till navy decks ran red

I've smuggled shady documents on pestilential dead

Sold out me loyal shipmates to save me sorry head

I've sunk unarmed freighters, and I've watched the crewmen drown

And I shot my mate Johansen in the back in Kingston town

Even signed a sheet of paper to hunt my brethren down

Then stole away the navy sloop and ran that shit aground

I've swum across the Lethe, now I'm resting on the shore

I divided and I conquered, but now I sail no more

For my love and for my children, for a fragile moment's peace

With all my sins I paid for this

Friend enter, be at ease