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PIRATICAL ART SONGS

• Seymour Barab: Pirate Story, from A Child's Garden of Verses


• Henri Barraud: Le sorcier et le pirate, from Chansons de Gramadoch


• Sir Julius Benedict: The Pirates' Song


• C. F. Chudleigh Candish: The Song of the Jolly Roger, pg. 1 (for TTBB quartet or male choir) - pg. 2 - pg. 3 - pg. 4 - pg. 5 - pg. 6 - pg. 7


• George Bruns/Xavier Atencio: Yo ho, yo ho, a Pirate's Life for Me


• George Whitefield Chadwick: Pirate Song, from Three Nautical Songs (baritone, piano)


• Félicien David: Le pirate


• Henry F.B. Gilbert: The Pirate Song


• Charles Tomlinson Griffes: An Old Song Re-Sung, from Two Poems by John Masefield


• Ivor Gurney: Captain Stratton's Fancy


• Henry Hadley: Jolly Roger (medium voice, piano)


• John Hill Hewitt: Ho! for a Rover's Life; or, The Song of a Pirate


• Sidney Homer: Pirate Story, from Three Songs from "A Child's Garden of Verses", Op. 16 No. 1


• Paul Jacobs/Sarah Durkee: It's Great to Be a Pirate


• Jan Bedřich Kittl: Die Abfahrt des Corsaren, Op. 15


• Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cat Morgan Introduces Himself, from Cats


• J.P. McCall (a.k.a. Peter Dawson): The Jolly Roger; The Pirate Goes West


• Marguerite Monnot/Henri Contet: Le chant du pirate, from soundtrack of Étoile sans lumière


• Mike Nawrocki: The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything


• Cole Porter: Mack the Black, from The Pirate


• R. Ritchie Robertson: The Jolly Roger (baritone, piano)


• Donald St. Pierre: Captain Kidd (trio for equal voices)


• Charles Villiers Stanford: Pirate Story, from A Child's Garland of Songs, Op. 30 (1892 - solo voice and piano; 1914 - two-part song)


• Ray Stevens: The Pirate Song   (the lyrics, so you can sing along)


• Deems Taylor: Captain Stratton's Fancy


• Ralph Vaughan Williams (arr.): Ward, the Pirate


• Peter Warlock: Captain Stratton's Fancy


• Robin le Rougetel White: Pirate Story, from Where Shall We Adventure?


• Marilyn Ziffrin: Two Arias from Captain Kidd (mezzo soprano, piano, viola)

                              

PIRATICAL OPERAS, OPERETTAS, and MUSICALS

• Jeanne Bargy/Jim Eiler: Treasure Island, a Musical Adventure


• Vincenzo Bellini: Il Pirata


• Leonard Bernstein: Peter Pan


• Alan Boubil/Claude-Michel Schönberg: The Pirate Queen


• Piers Chater-Robinson: Peter Pan


• Keith Crosby Brown: The Pirate's Daughter


• César Cui: Le Flibustier


• Mary Donnelly/George Strid: Treasure Island (children's musical)


• Laurelyn Dossett: Bloody Blackbeard


• Lulu Jones Downing: Pirate of the Gulf


• Bill Francoeur: The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree


• Victor Herbert: Naughty Marietta


• Seymour Hicks: Captain Kidd


• Wilfred Hiller: Peter Pan


• Manolis Kalomiris: Sunrise


• Noel Katz: The Pirate Captains (children's opera)


• Jay Kerr/Barbara Kahn: Pyrates!


• Denis King/Willis Hall: Treasure Island


• Stephen Kingsbury: Treasure Island! (children's musical)


• Daniel Laubacher: Ray and the Pirates of the Lost Cove (children's musical)


• Charles Lecocq: Giroflé-Girofla


• Walter Leigh: Jolly Roger


• Michael J. Lewis: Under Milk Wood


• Edward Betts Manning: Blackbeard


• Cyril Ornadel/Hal Shaper: Treasure Island


• Giovanni Pacini: Il Corsaro


• Arthur Penn: Captain Crossbones, or, The Pirate's Bride


• John Pepusch/John Gay: Polly


• Robert Schumann: Der Korsar Opernfragment (1844)


• Walter Steffens: Unter dem Milchwald, Op. 14


• George Stiles/Anthony Drewe: Peter Pan - A Musical Adventure


• Jule Styne/Betty Comden/Adolph Green: Peter Pan


• Arthur Sullivan/W.S. Gilbert: Pirates of Penzance


• Richard Taylor: The Pirate Pretender


• Neal Tracy: Pirates of Mystery Island (children's musical)


• Unknown: Dora's Pirate Adventure (children's musical)


• Giuseppi Verdi: Il Corsaro


• Visage Entertainment: Treasure Island, the Musical (children's musical)

PIRATICAL BALLADS, BROADSIDES, and FOLK-SONGS

• Stuart M. Frank: The Book of Pirate Songs


• Christine Markel Lampe: The No Quarter Given Pirate Song Book


• The Pirate Song


• Songs written for International Talk-like-a-Pirate Day


• Trad. English: Captain Kidd (As I sailed) (aka Captain Robert Kidd)


• Trad. English: We'll rant and we'll roar (adapted for piratical singing by Mallory & McCall)

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Avast belay the English brig      we took and quickly sank,      and for a warning to the crew,      we made them walk the plank.      Yo ho, yo ho, the frisky plank,      he walks along it so,      'til it goes down,      and you go down,      to Too Ra Loo Ra Lo....