The Incredible String Band

The Incredible String Band - Old Buccaneer lyrics

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sissie wouldn't believe when I told her the old man was gone

the one who lived all alone in the shack on the shore 

that's so hard to find, so har to go past 

he used to light our cigarettes and never tell anyone 

he had blue tattoos and he'd tell us tall stories from the bottom of a rum glass 

he's got things to see on the spanish main he's gone away for awhile 

he's gone skullduggering on the spanish main he's gone away far away



thought I heard sails creaking as the stars paled

anchor chains clinking as the night failed way out on the bay



no one else knows how he crowed when they crowned him king of the cannibal isles

or how he'd really feel blind drunk at the wheel through a high hurricane 

he could dupe the devil at dice and charm charmers whit his beguiling smile 

how he fell in love in Lima and a schemer stole his pearly girl and broke his heart again 

now all the foes he killed call him in to fight with their beckoning bones 

and all the gold he stole sparkles in the morning light 

his sweet ladies are all alone



sissie dear let's not go near the church today 

the big bells tolling the hearse goes rolling the holy joes pray 

as they lay him away



lived one too many winters cold cold weather 

had to sail down to the south sea waters warm 

his old bones there 

let an old man go through 

let an old man go through
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Language: English

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