Pirate Smile

(Pirate Smile, from Fearless Moral Inventory, words and music by Juliet A. Wright, copyright 2008, all rights reserved)  Pirate Smile

Pirate smile

Homely to most

She’s so proud of that tooth

She’ll boast of her victories

To you and me

Her face is a map

Of where she’s been

A tooth is missing

Scars on her chin

Mm

Pirate smile

Homely to most

She’s so proud of that tooth

She’ll boast of her victories

To you and me

Dressed as a boy to go to school

Cuz men get more

That’s the golden rule

Oh,

Let’s hit the high seas

Schooners love a man

Fight hard they’ll never notice

Live while you can

Pirate smile

Homely to most

She’s so proud of hat tooth

She’ll boast of her victory

To you and me

First one to battle

Last to give in

She loves nothing better

Than the thrill of the win

In the dual her rival stumbled

So she barred her breasts

As he stood bewildered

Her cutlass pierced his chest

Pirate smile

Homely to most

She’s so proud of that tooth

She’ll boast of her victories

To you and me

She met Jack

And her heart did melt

They sailed together

Gainst the Commonweatlth

Ahh

It’s almost over

Living on the run

The Tories are upon them

See their setting sun

One sad morning

It came to an end

Drunk on rum

A ship is hard to defend

Before the hanging

She caught is eye,

If you’d fought like a man

You wouldn’t have to die

Oh

Somehow she gains her freedom

She escaped the rope

She lives in every woman

Her survival gives us hope.