How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now

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"Letters of marque. You will offer what amounts to a full pardon. Jack will be free, a privateer in the employ of England."
—Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's privateers
—Stan Rogers, "Barrett's Privateers"

Tant que le vent pousse la frégate
'y a du bon temps pour les pirates
Tant que la mer est par-dessous
C'est le corsaire qui tient le bon bout
Ho-hisse-ho! Pavillon noir
Ho-hisse-ho! Pavillon haut
—Edith Piaf, "Le chant du pirate"

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This post made me want to go read up on the Stan Rogers song and on privateering... and this when I had to finish editing a 4,000 word document on private equity :-|

Now it's evening and I can research to my heart's content :-)

Edith Piaf has a beautiful voice! (.... yeah... I realize I'm not the first person to reach that conclusion...)

[sovay]

This post made me want to go read up on the Stan Rogers song and on privateering...

I love Stan Rogers. For years "Barrett's Privateers" was the song I had heard some older students singing on a bus trip in middle school: all I remembered was Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier, which did not help me track it down as much as I thought it would. I think strange_selkie is responsible for acquiring me an actual copy of the song.

and this when I had to finish editing a 4,000 word document on private equity

Yikes. May I ask what it is you do?

Edith Piaf has a beautiful voice! (.... yeah... I realize I'm not the first person to reach that conclusion...)

Is okay. It's still totally valid.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You went to a much more literate middle school--or more musical?--than I did; I think we sang "one hundred bottles of beer on the wall"....

re: what I do--I'm a freelance nonfiction editor. Mostly business-y stuff, but also some reference stuff... and a newsletter on China (I was an English major in college and a classical Japanese major for an ABD stint in grad school...)

But NOW I'm going to become a world-famous writer of children's fantasy. (Reverting to my original plan :-P)

...barring that, I'll settle for reading people's great stories and poems online.

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Mostly business-y stuff, but also some reference stuff... and a newsletter on China (I was an English major in college and a classical Japanese major for an ABD stint in grad school...)

Neat.

But NOW I'm going to become a world-famous writer of children's fantasy. (Reverting to my original plan :-P)

Hey, I think that is a most excellent plan!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

"Barrett's Privateers" I was familiar with, but "Le Chant du Pirate" I'd not heard before.