Hoist The Colours

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we’ll roam.

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage…
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler’s Green!

The bell has been raised
from it’s watery grave…
Do you hear it’s sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

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Pirates Yo Ho Yo ho a pirates Life for Me

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We extort and pilfer, we filch and sack.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle and even highjack.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We kindle and char and in flame and ignite.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we’re really a fright.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.

We’re rascals and scoundrels, we’re villians and knaves.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
We’re devils and black sheep, we’re really bad eggs.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.

We’re beggars and blighters and ne’er do-well cads,
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we’re loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.

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 Hoist the Colours

 ”Hoist the Colours” is a song in the feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End from the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. It was composed by Hans Zimmer and Gore Verbinski, and it featured lyrics by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. This song fulfills a tradition in the trilogy that every film contains a pirate song, although this song features far more heavily than “A Pirate’s Life for Me” in Curse of the Black Pearl or “Dead Man’s Chest” in Dead Man’s Chest, as its melody is used throughout the film as a major theme. …”

“…This song was sung in the opening scene of the movie, wherein a young cabin boy associated with piracy sang it while waiting to be hanged. All the prisoners then started to join in the singing. It is then reprised by Elizabeth Swann when she enters the Singapore waterways via canoe to meet with Barbossa.

In the film, “Hoist the Colours” is known among all the pirates of the world and refers to what occurred at the first meeting of the Brethren Court. The song spreads the message throughout the Pirate world that a meeting of the “Brethren Court” must be called. The song seems to somehow resonate through pieces of eight, as seen when Sao Feng holds a piece of eight by his ear when Barbossa gave it to him. It refers to the binding of Calypso in human form by the Brethren Court in order to control her domain. In the opening scene the boy sings “the king and his men” meaning the pirate king and his men “stole the queen from her bed, and bound her in her bones” trap the queen of the sea, Calypso, and bind her in Tia Dalma’s body. “The seas be ours, and by the powers, where we will, we’ll roam” the sea belongs to man now.

When Elizabeth sings in Singapore, she sings of men living and those who are dead and some who ’sail on the sea’ referring to the pirate lords and their whereabouts. She sings of ‘keys to the cage’ (the nine pieces of eight that will free Calypso from her body) and a ‘devil to pay’ (Davy Jones told the pirates how to bind Calypso, and his price was the agreement of the pirates to never unbind her). ‘Fiddler’s Green‘ is a legendary, blissful place to which the pirates refer, where they could escape from the world’s problems. (Traditionally, it is the afterlife found by drowned sailors.) She then starts another verse about a bell raised from its ‘watery grave’ (the song that calls the Brethren Court) urging the pirates to listen and turn ‘their sails to home’ (calling the pirate lords to Shipwreck Cove).

The melody of the song’s chorus is incorporated in a number of musical pieces played throughout the film, including a full orchestral version played during the climactic battle between the Flying Dutchman and the Black Pearl. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_the_Colours

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