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Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
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A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea
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With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
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The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

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Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny


Born in Ireland scandalously
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Bastard daughter, To a prosperous lawyer
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Shunned suitor and society
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For the love of a pirate boy

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So Calico Jack and our Anne Bonny
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Passioned lovers
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Villainous plunderers
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Sailed off for a life of piracy
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On his ship, The Revenge, Ahoy

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Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
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A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea
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With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
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The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

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But this was the 18th century
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Where men make knives, And women make wives
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So Anne disguised herself to be
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A deadly pirate boy


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Oh she plundered and murdered and raided
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With canons roaring

Pistols warring
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She ravaged galleons mercilessly
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Oh Anne Bonny

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Then a fellow pirate caught a glance
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Her naked chest, A woman’s breast
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So she drew her cutlass and took a stand
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To be Anne the Pirate Queen

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A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea
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With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
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The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

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And that’s when Anne met Mary Read
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A pirate siren, Female tyrant
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Together they terrorised the sea
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A buccaneering team

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Oh they plundered and murdered and
raided the sea
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With canons roaring, Pistols warring
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They ravaged galleons mercilessly
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Anne and Mary Read

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On October 1720
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Gold they struck, So the boys got drunk
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An easy opportunity
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For a ship of British marines

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Anne and Mary fought alone
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With cutlass flying, Pistols firing
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They fought hard for their ocean throne
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But lost their victory

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And so the crew were captured
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Thrown in prison, Death by hanging
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But Anne Bonny was pardoned
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For her belly held a child

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So she paid her Jack a visit
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And this she said, With no tear shed

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‘If you had fought like a man
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You wouldn’t be about to die like a dog”

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And she turned on her heel
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Walked out of the door
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And vanished
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Into legend

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Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
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A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea
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With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
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The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

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Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
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