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BANDCAMP EXTRA: Pirate Song (90's acoustic take)

from Music for Dancing and Dining by Blindhead

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Pirate Song, recorded on a porch in the mid-90's on acoustic guitars

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I ran away with Pirates I was just a little child
Nine years old and thirty years wild
We spent the first year lootin’ every gas station we saw
Well we were roaming pirates and we were wanted by the law

My parents didn’t miss me for nearly seven months
My mother kept with sailors and my father kept with drunks
So I never had no family ‘cept the ones I met in jail
So please forgive me baby for the contents of my tale

Chorus:
Well I love the life of a pirate
There’s more loot in America than on the bottom of the sea
There’s nothing bad that I can say about it
I got the Jolly Rogers tattooed on my knee

2 measures instrumental
Well it wasn’t until Abilene that I’d meet my Waterloo
With a waitress at a diner down on route 642
She served me grits and jail time her father was the law
And the coldest man with a badge that I ever saw

Chorus:
Well I love the life of a pirate
There’s more loot in America than on the bottom of the sea
There’s nothing bad that I can say about it
I got the Jolly Rogers tattooed on my knee


Break:
But I always knew that I was not well-fated
And all the crimes that I had perpetrated
Would come back to me like a lie
Made after one has hesitated


And life in prison’s taught me many lessons
The hardest of which has not left me guessing
If you can lead a pirates life
Then sit back babe and count your blessings

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from Music for Dancing and Dining, released March 5, 2024
Ed Hoffman, Bryan Pocius

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Blindhead New York, New York

Blindhead is a NYC outfit that has morphed from electronica and hip-hop production to live instrumental pieces. Styles run from modern alterna-folk guitar-based rock to stoner rock to cinematic instrumental pieces that could fit a film or television show to straight up noise.

There's also some funk and some stoner rock.
Blindhead is Bryan Pocius. ... more

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