Captain Colston Lyrics

You sailors all on you I call you heroes stout and brave

That are inclined to cross the sea your homelands now to leave

Come join with Captain Colston that hero stout and bold

Who fought his way all on the sea and never was controlled

O we sailed away from Liverpool the weather being fine

Bound for New York City boys it was our chief design

We being all Irish emigrants the truth to you I'll tell

Who in distress our homes had left and to Ireland bid farewell

On the evening of the twenty fifth our captain he did cry

Clear away the decks me boys for a strange sail I do spy

And all you Irish emigrants awake now from your sleep

For in a few more hours me boys you'll be slumbering in the deep

For a pirate ship is a-coming down just from the Western sea

For to rob us of our property going to Amerikay

Well the pirate ship came up to us and ordered us to stand

Your gold and precious cargo this moment we demand

Your gold and precious loading resign to me this day

For one living soul you'll never bring unto Amerikay

But up and spoke our captain with voice both loud and bold

Saying we will slumber in the deep before we'll be controlled

Before that we'll surrender our property to thee

We'll fight like Irish hearts of oak and gain the victory

So the battle it commenced and the firing did begin

They wounded the captain's mate and killed two of his men

But our Irish boys were valiant and brave and our cannons loud did roar

And we killed ten of the pirate men and threw them overboard

Well the cries of women and children as in the hold they lay

And our captain and his gallant crew they showed an Irish play

The captain's wife she came on deck saying I'll soon end this strife

And with a pistol ball she took the pirate captain's life

And it's to conclude and finish the truth I'll tell to you

O we never lost a single man excepting one or two

And the pirate ship surrendered just at the break of day

And we brought her as a prisoner unto Amerikay