You Are a Pirate (by Fred Perry)

If this song isn't running through your head constantly while playing with the Plunderlings, we don't know what to tell you.

Do what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.
You are a pirate!

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!
Being a pirate is alright to be.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.
You are a pirate!

You are a pirate! (Yay!)

We got us a map (A map!)
To lead us to a hidden box
That's all locked up with locks! (With locks!)
And buried deep away.

We'll dig up the box. (The box!)
We know it's full of precious booty.
Bust open the locks,
And then we'll say hooray!

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!
If you love to sail the sea,
You are a pirate!

(Weigh anchor!)

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!
Being a pirate is alright with me.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.
You are a pirate!

Arr yar, ahoy and avast.
Diggity dirt and dig diggity fast!
Hang the black flag at the end of the mast!
You are a pirate!

(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)

We're sailing away. (Set sail!)
Adventure awaits on every shore.
We set sail and explore. (Yar har!)
And run and jump all day. (Yay!)

We float on our boat. (The boat!)
Until it's time to drop the anchor.
Then hang up our coats. (Aye aye!)
Until we sail again!

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee.
If you love to sail the sea,
You are a pirate!

(Land ho!)

Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!
Being a pirate is alright with me.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.
You are a pirate!

Yar har!
Wind at your backs lads, wherever you go!
Blue sky above and blue ocean below.
You are a pirate!

(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
You arr a pirate.
Heh heh heh heh heh heh.)

According to writer Ken Pontac, the final stanza is supposed to begin "Yar har, yo ho ho ho, wind at your back lads, wherever you go" so that it both rhymes and fits the meter, but he wasn't present when the song was recorded to catch the mistake and correct it.

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