(gentle music)
(audience applauds)
♪ 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 ♪
♪ Watched the men who rode you ♪
♪ Switch from sails to steam ♪
♪ And in your belly you hold the treasures ♪
♪ Few have ever seen ♪
♪ Most of 'em dreams ♪
♪ Yes, I am a pirate ♪
♪ Two hundred years too late ♪
♪ The cannons don't thunder ♪
♪ There's nothing to plunder ♪
♪ I'm an over-forty victim of fate ♪
♪ Arriving too late ♪
♪ I've done a bit of smuggling ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪ And I have been drunk now for over two weeks ♪
♪ I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks ♪
♪ But I got to stop wishing ♪
♪ Got to go fishing ♪
♪ Down to rock bottom again ♪
♪ Just a few friends ♪
(gentle music continues)
♪ I go for younger women ♪
♪ Lived with several a while ♪
♪ And though I ran away ♪
♪ They'd come back one day ♪
♪ And still can manage a smile ♪
♪ Just takes a while ♪
♪ Mother, mother ocean ♪
♪ After all the years I've found ♪
♪ My occupational hazard being ♪
♪ My occupation's just not around ♪
♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪
♪ But all were frowned ♪
♪ I feel like I've drowned ♪
♪ Gonna get drunk up town ♪