[00:00.189]For whiskey and bad company
[00:04.658]Has made a fool of me
[00:08.681]So, come all young men, my warning tale
[00:13.226]Won't you shun the piracy?
[00:18.764]
[00:18.764]Oh, me name, 'tis William Hollander
[00:22.108]As you will understand
[00:25.217]I was born in the County of Waterford
[00:28.351]Down by her golden strand
[00:31.486]When I was young and in me prime
[00:34.621]Good fortune, upon me, shone
[00:37.703]And my parents raised me tenderly
[00:40.786]I was their only son
[00:43.633]
[00:43.633]Oh, me father bound me to a trade
[00:47.029]In Waterford's fair town
[00:50.111]He bound me to a cooper there
[00:52.750]By the name of William Brown
[00:56.355]I served my master faithfully
[00:59.437]For three long years or more
[01:02.337]Til I shipped aboard The Ocean Queen
[01:05.733]Belonging to Tramore
[01:08.737]
[01:08.737]And when we reached Bermuda's isle
[01:11.976]I met with a Captain Moore
[01:14.771]He was the skipper of the Flying Cloud
[01:18.088]From out of Baltimore
[01:21.406]He asked me if I'd sail with him
[01:24.044]On a slaving voyage to go
[01:27.205]And to the burning shores of Africa
[01:30.235]Where the sugar cane does grow
[01:33.814]
[01:33.814]For whiskey and bad company
[01:36.844]Has made a fool of me
[01:39.848]So, come all young men, my warning tale
[01:42.748]Won't you shun the piracy?
[01:52.518]
[01:52.518]'Twas after five weeks we arrived
[01:55.653]Off Africa's burning shore
[01:58.735]Five hundred of them weeping blacks
[02:01.426]From their native lands, we tore
[02:05.004]We loaded them in iron chain
[02:08.113]And stowed them down below
[02:10.908]Scarce eighteen inches to the man
[02:14.226]Was all that they had to show
[02:17.386]
[02:17.386]Well, the fever came and the plague, too
[02:20.495]And it killed them off like flies
[02:23.656]We dragged their bodies up on deck
[02:26.320]And we dumped them in the tide
[02:29.638]It was better for the rest of them
[02:33.034]If they had died below
[02:35.881]Than to wear the chain or feel the lash
[02:39.016]In America forever more
[02:42.020]
[02:42.020]For whiskey and bad company
[02:45.494]Has made a fool of me
[02:48.342]So, come all young men, my warning tale
[02:51.346]Won't you shun the piracy?
[03:00.724]
[03:00.724]Oh, we sacked and we plundered many a ship
[03:04.120]Both frigates and liners, too
[03:07.228]Until the British man-o-war
[03:10.389]The Dungeness, hove in view
[03:13.497]She fired a shot across our bow
[03:16.658]We sailed before the wind
[03:19.741]The chain-shot brought our mainmast down
[03:22.902]And we fell far behind
[03:25.880]
[03:25.880]So, it's now to Newgate we are bound
[03:29.066]And we're the ones in chains
[03:32.044]For the sinking and for plundering
[03:34.970]All along the Spanish Main
[03:38.418]The judge, he found us guilty
[03:41.553]We were condemned to die
[03:44.400]So, to all my friends, take heed by me
[03:47.744]Lead not such a life as I
[03:50.644]
[03:50.644]So, it's fare-thee-well, old Waterford
[03:53.909]And the girl I do adore
[03:57.253]I'll never kiss your lips again
[04:00.257]Or squeeze your breasts no more
[04:03.339]
[04:03.339]For whiskey and bad company
[04:06.526]Has made a fool of me
[04:09.347]So, come all young men, my warning tale
[04:12.351]Won't you shun the piracy?
[04:15.643]For whiskey and bad company
[04:18.986]Has made a fool of me
[04:21.729]So, come all young men, my warning tale
[04:26.170]Won't you shun the piracy?