The High Barbaree- Dingle (BM) pre1941 Lomax
From Our Singing Country, 1941 by John A Lomax and Alan Lomax
THE HIGH BARBAREE- No record. Text sent in by Capt. A. E. Dingle, Cove Cottage, West Bermuda. Tune from Stanton Henry King's Book of Charities; p. 25 (Oliver Ditson Co., N. Y., 1918) See Wha, p. 78.
1 There were two lofty ships from old England came,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;
One was the Prince of Luther; and the other, Prince of Wales,
Cruising down along the coast of the High Barbaree.
2 "Aloft there, aloft!" our jolly boatswain cries,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;
"Look ahead, look astern, look aweather and alee,
Look along down the coast of the High Barbaree."
3 "There's naught upon the stern, there's naught upon the lee,"
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;
"But there's a lofty ship to windward, and she's sailing fast and free.
Sailing down along the coast of the High Barbaree."
4 "Oh, hail her, oh, hail her!" our gallant captain cried,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we.
"Are you a man-o'-war or a privateer," said he,
"Cruising down along the coast of the High Barbaree?"
5 "Oh, I am not a man-o'-war nor privateer," said he,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;
"But I'm a salt-sea pirate a-looking for me fee,
Cruising down along the coast of the High Barbaree."
6 Oh, 'twas broadside to broadside a long time we lay,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;
Until the Prince of Luther shot the pirate's masts away,
Cruising down along the coast of the High Barbaree.
7 "Oh, quarter, oh, quarter," those pirates then did cry,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we;
But the quarter that we gave them—we sunk them in the sea,
Cruising down along the coast of the High Barbaree.