Pirates, pirates, action, daring do What if we could get to be part of a pirate crew? Shiver me timbers, ready about, pack me lunch, we're shipping out With the scurbiest bucket of scubber scum ever blown to kingdom come You mean us? You! You! Us? Well I'll be a rusty blunder bus Yo ho glory be gimme a life of piracy Load me cannon and fire it Gimme the life of a pirate Girls, girls take it from me the roving life of piracy Is less than it's cracked up to be Less? Less Much less? Yes For instance, if i might digress Pirate ships do not have showers Arr arr there she blows Pirates so not smell like flowers Here come pirates hold your nose! Big deal Buckle me squash If we were pirates we'd never wash Never?! Never! Oh my gosh! The pirate life for me Hail, hail glory be gimme the life of larceny Gimme a perch and a carrot, arrk for the life of a parrot Pirate! Parrot! Pirate! Parrot! This is absurd! Loose the bird! Yo ho glory be gimme the life of...parrocy Load me cannon and fire it Gimme the life of a pirate Shiver me timber! Alas me mateys! Pirates do not have bed times Yo ho ready about Measle shots are other dread times Pack their lunch, they're shipping out I do miss the looting and the pillage and the plunder And the mayhem and the bedlam and the cannon shot like thunder And I love the jolly rodger, that's the flag that we sailed under Gimme the, gimme the, gimme the life of a pirate Arr arr glory be gimme the life of piracy Load me cannon and fire it As a career we admire it How could you help but desire it? It's the pirate life Arrk the parrot life The life for me Gimme the life of a pirate