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To: saveliberty
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all.

Watched the men who rode you switch from sail to steam. In your belly you can hold the treasures few have ever seen. Most of em dreams, most of em dreams.

Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too late. The cannons don't thunder, theres nothin to plunder, Im an over-forty victim of fate.
Arriving too late. Arriving too late.

Jimmy Buffett - A Pirate Looks At 40

40 posted on 09/19/2007 5:28:11 AM PDT by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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To: mc5cents

Open season on the open seas and
Captain says no prisoners please
Skull and crossbones on a background of black
We aint stealin were just takin back

Chorus:
We aint stealin were just takin back
Very simple plan of attack
Its our job and a labor of love
Take it home to the up above
We aint stealin were just takin back
Very simple statement of fact
Call it pillage or call it plunder
Were takin it back from them boys down under

Hit us hard, took our treasure
That was the worst thing they could do
It will be our great pleasure
To take it back from that captain kangaroo

Yo ho ho, and a bottle of suds
Its a pirates fight we choose
No we dont want a bucket of blood
Just a cup is all we could use
Just a cup

The sails are up and the bets are down
Lets lighten up this harbor town
By hook or crook or new design
Were streakin for that finish line

Chorus:
We aint stealin were just takin back
Very simple plan of attack
Its our job and a labor of love
Take it home to the up above
We aint stealin were just takin back
Very simple statement of fact
Call it pillage or call it plunder
Were takin it back from them boys down under

— spoken:
We ask ourselves when we get in a fix
What would popeye do in a tight spot like this
Hed race for his true love and easily win it
In an old spinach can with a mast stuck in it

Lift us up, take us high
Time to let our spirits fly
Lift us up, take us high
Let us sail until we die

Lift us up, take us high
Let us float above the foam
Let our sails fill the sky
We are takin our sweet treasure home

Take it back
Were takin it baaaaaaaack
Take it back!

Jimmy Buffett - Take It Back


50 posted on 09/19/2007 6:36:17 AM PDT by fredhead (Teach a man to fish.......and he'll fish for a lifetime.)
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To: mc5cents

I’ve done a bit of smugglin’
And I’ve run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami
But I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last


60 posted on 09/19/2007 7:28:18 AM PDT by sheana
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To: mc5cents
You just had too...

Now I want to head to my boat...

Which unfortunately is in the backyard right now...

62 posted on 09/19/2007 7:49:32 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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