Pamme Swan: Swan Songs
Pirate/Sprinkles
(Pamme Swan)
April 14, 2002
This Happened...In Sherburne.
The Pirate
A pirate sailed into our sleeping town
I was just seventeen
He anchored up on the old Sanitarium road
Where the city kids would come to spread their wings
And the pirate said he had real big plans
If we all bought a little paradise
So I stood in line with the town to get a job
But mostly to see the pirate’s eye
And the pirate yelled and the pirate schemed
He was just this little man who could make you believe
Instremental
Make me believe
He could take me out there
Out to see
I sail around with Phoenix’s
Rising from a big blue naive sea
Instrumental with recorder
Well the town woke up and started laughing at him
The pirate didn’t have a dime
And his ship went down where the old black bells rings
Paradise can’t be built on a lie
The pirate is my skeleton in a long ago far away dream
When my little town turned radical
I was just seventeen