Rummage Sail Lyrics

Rummage Sail

When I am much older, my treasure stowed and safe

There's something that I'd fancy before I leave this life

Round up my old companions from campaigns of yore

Load the hold with fare and rum and go to sea once more

A rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail

Waited on hook and peg by a mermaid belle

A rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail

Nothing to do but toast those lost and tell our tall sea tales

A rummage sail

I'd round up Miles Shaughnessy and my friend Jack Sticks

We'd laugh and say in our day, we were a fearsome mix

Jon Cutter'd play his accordion on fiddle one-eyed Pete

Some would raise their voice in song, the rest would tap their feet

A rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail

Waited on hook and peg by a mermaid belle

A rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail

Nothing to do but toast those lost and tell our tall sea tales

A rummage sail

Free in the salt air, cut free from the shore

Once more in the briny then landlubbers ever more

Still pirates to the core

Ships with silk and calico would pass within our reach

We'd grab the booty for old times sake and hide it on the beach

We'd all start to get homesick in this changing world

We'd weigh anchor sail for home our jolly roger flag unfurled

A rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail

Waited on hook and peg by a mermaid belle

A rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail rummage sail

Nothing to do but toast those lost and tell our tall sea tales

A rummage sail