polly on the shore

come all you wild young men and a warning take by me

never lead your single life astray or into bad company

as i myself have done

being all in the month of may

when i

as pressed by a sea captain

a privateer to trade

to the east indies we were bound to plunder the raging main

and it's many the brave and a galliant ship we sent to a watery grave

ah

for freeport we did steer

our provisions to renew

when we did spy a bold man-of-war sailing three feet to our two

oh

she fired across our bows

heave to and don't refuse