the pirate song (i want to sing and dance)
Singer: ray stevens
sixteen men on a dead man's chest!
yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
avast there
mates! you're sailing with long john blackbeard pegleg patcheye hook!
the scourge of the bounty main!
the bloodthirstiest
black-heartedest pirate captain ever sailed the seven seas!
ha ha! what say ye
we hoist the jolly roger
heel over to yonder spanish galleon
lay a few broadsides again' her timbers
swing over there on these here lanyards with our cutlasses in our teeth
cut out the rivets and split the booty!
what say ye to that
me hearties? eh?
i don't like it!
you don't like it?
i don't like it and i don't wanna do it!
it's tacky! and don't look at me that way. well
if you don't like it
what do you want?
i want to sing and dance
i want to sing and dance
i want to be a pirate in the pirates of penzance
wear me silver buckle slippers and me tight shiny pants
i want to sing and dance!
you wanna sing and dance? hah!
well
you don't like plunderin'
eh? shiver me timbers. how 'bout treasurin'
huh?
rubies and emeralds
pearls and gold doubloons! british soverigns
silver chalices encrusted with diamonds and jewels!
necklaces and bracelets of every shape and size
fit for the crown heads of europe
eh?
and all buried in a pirate's chest and i just happen to know where. how 'bout that me bloodthirsty buckos! ha ha ha!
i don't like it!
you don't like it?
i don't like it and i don't want it!
ye don't want it. and i won't do it! i'm an artiste!
an artiste! well
mr. artiste
what do you want?
i want to sing and dance
i want to sing and dance
i want to be a pirate in the pirates of penzance
wear me silver buckle slippers and me tight shiny pants
i want to sing and dance!
now listen here! this ain't no floating gilbert and sullivan show
you know!
for some little flittin' tinkerbell!
this here be a black-hearted pirate ship
and i'd have you keelhauled if you weren't me own flesh and blood you little twit!
so you don't like plunderin'
eh?
i don't like it!
and you don't want no treasurin'
huh?
i don't want it!
then you probably don't want no groggin' and revelin' and wenchin' and rummin' either
i suppose?
well
deep down
you wanna know the truth?
it's not me. i don't want it. well
what do you want?
as if i didn't already bleeding know. i want to sing and dance
and. i know
i know! and wear your tight little shiny pants!
ehh!
ok
we'll all sing and dance!
i said we'll all sing and dance!
or you'll walk the plank!
1-2-3
i want to sing and dance
i want to sing and dance
i want to be a pirate in the pirates of penzance
i like it
i like it!
i kind of like it me own self
i thought you would. i want to sing and dance!
sixteen men on a dead man's chest
yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
i don't like rum
you don't like rum?
well
no. actually
well
i might like a little perrier. with a lime in it. a little perrier with a lime in it. he wants a lime in it!
well
do you have any escargot?
escar-what?
what's your soup today?
soup?!
might have a bit of a salad
too. well
how about a bleeding fingerbowl?
maybe a croissant. is that right? those french make everything so hard! why didn't they just call it a bun?