Jack of Spades

Trumpets of the fortress
heralded the evening
celebrating sunset in rud.
Mama tell me mama
who these circling birds are,
why they screech about plunder and blood?

Jack of Spades we're gonna meet!
Yo ho ho, with all his fleet!
Yo ho ho, ring loud as hell,
yo ho ho, the tocsin bell!

He's been brave and bold; every brothel's known
how fast his ripper knife spins.
Whole holds of gold, heart of granite stone,
frigate sails of captured hostages' skins.
He's been the Queen's unease across a dozen seas
but to untimely widows, "Come, Jackie, please!"
Melee survivors drank tequila, grog and rum,
the dead, yo ho ho, sank
to sharks as chewing gum
forever,

you ho ho, the trumpets play,
you ho ho, in chains away,
you ho ho, to end the game,
you ho ho! To scaffold frame.

Mama he's back from his long-lasted raid.
Far from the land by the breezes he strayed.
Grabbed by the Queen's men, in feathers and tar,
Dead as a doornail, he's hung on the bar,
Jack of Spades...

Yo ho ho! (x3)
Yo ho ho ho!..

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