"Look aloft there, and look aloft there," the gallant bosun cried,
Sail high, and low, and so sailed we!
"Look to starboard, look to larboard, look to windward, look to lee,"
Sailing all along the coast of High Barbary!
There is no ship to windward, there is no ship to lee,
Sail high, and low, and so sailed we!
There's a gallant ship to starboard and she's sailing fast and free.
Sailing all along the coast of High Barbary!
"Oh, are you a merchant or a man-of-war?" cried we.
Sail high, and low, and so sailed we!
"Oh, no, I am a pirate and I'm sailing for a fee."
Sailing all along the coast of High Barbary!
Broadside and broadside, a long time we lay,
Sail high, and low, and so sailed we!
Until the Prince of Luthor shot the pirate's masts away.
Sailing all along the coast of High Barbary!
"For mercy, for mercy, the pirate ship then cried.
Sail high, and low, and so sailed we!
But the mercy that we showed them, we sank them in the tide.
Sailing all along the coast of High Barbary!
But, oh, it was a bitter sight and grieved us full sore,
Sail high, and low, and so sailed we!
To see the pirates drowning as they tried to swim for shore.
Sailing all along the coast of High Barbary!