Coast of Barbary- Broadside (MA) c.1831 Deming
[This is the second earliest printed text I'm aware of in the US. It's taken from American Memory and is a broadside of three different songs titled:
Constitution & Guerriere, Coast of Barbary, and Days of absence. Sold wholesale and retail, by L. Deming, No. 62, Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston. [n. d.]
Leonard Deming, a "trader and barber," the publisher of the broadside containing the ballad, and who sold it according to a notice upon it at "No 62 Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston," was only in that city between 1831 and 1836. These dates therefore mark the limits within which it was published.
This is the version published in the Forget-Me-Not Songster (Turner and Fisher publishers, circa 1844-50, p. 215.) with two minor changes: 1) last verse is "sank" instead of "sunk" and 2) there are some capitalization differences (pirate, coast). The fact that the title is missing "The" in both is a good indication it was copied from Deming.
R. Matteson 2014]
Coast of Barbary- Leonard Deming, No 62 Hanover Street, 2d door from Friend Street, Boston, between 1831 and 1836.
TWO lofty ships from Old England came,
Blow high and blow low and so sailed we;
One was the Prince of Luther and the other Prince of Wales,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.
Up aloft, up aloft, the jolly boatswain cries,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee,
Look along down on the coast of Barbary.
There's none upon the stern, there's none upon the lee,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we:
But there is a ship at windward, a lofty ship at sea,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.
Oh hail, Oh hail, that lofty tall ship,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
Are you a man of war, or a privateer, said she,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.
Oh I am no man of war, or privateer, said she,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
But I am a jolly Pirate, a looking for my fee,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.
Broad side and broad side, a long time they lay,
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
Till the Prince of Luther shot all the Pirate's masts away,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.
Oh quarters! Oh quarters! these Pirate's did cry;
Blow high and blow low, and so sailed we;
But the quarters that we gave them, we sunk them in the sea,
Cruising down on the Coast of Barbary.