{"id":33436,"date":"2021-01-16T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=33436"},"modified":"2023-12-03T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T20:44:11","slug":"you-are-a-pirate-by-fred-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/you-are-a-pirate-by-fred-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are a Pirate (by Fred Perry)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this song isn't running through your head constantly while playing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/plund1tuff.php\"><\/i>Plunderlings<\/i><\/a>, we don't know what to tell you.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/youareapirateremovingsoon...coppampgun.com\" width=\"425\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!<br \/>\nBeing a pirate is alright to be.<br \/>\nDo what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>You are a pirate! (Yay!)<\/p>\n<p>We got us a map (A map!)<br \/>\nTo lead us to a hidden box<br \/>\nThat's all locked up with locks! (With locks!)<br \/>\nAnd buried deep away.<\/p>\n<p>We'll dig up the box. (The box!)<br \/>\nWe know it's full of precious booty.<br \/>\nBust open the locks,<br \/>\nAnd then we'll say hooray!<\/p>\n<p>Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!<br \/>\nIf you love to sail the sea,<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>(Weigh anchor!)<\/p>\n<p>Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!<br \/>\nBeing a pirate is alright with me.<br \/>\nDo what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>Arr yar, ahoy and avast.<br \/>\nDiggity dirt and dig diggity fast!<br \/>\nHang the black flag at the end of the mast!<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)<\/p>\n<p>We're sailing away. (Set sail!)<br \/>\nAdventure awaits on every shore.<br \/>\nWe set sail and explore. (Yar har!)<br \/>\nAnd run and jump all day. (Yay!)<\/p>\n<p>We float on our boat. (The boat!)<br \/>\nUntil it's time to drop the anchor.<br \/>\nThen hang up our coats. (Aye aye!)<br \/>\nUntil we sail again!<\/p>\n<p>Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee.<br \/>\nIf you love to sail the sea,<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>(Land ho!)<\/p>\n<p>Yar har, fiddle-dee-dee!<br \/>\nBeing a pirate is alright with me.<br \/>\nDo what you want 'cause a pirate lives free.<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>Yar har!<br \/>\nWind at your backs lads, wherever you go!<br \/>\nBlue sky above and blue ocean below.<br \/>\nYou are a pirate!<\/p>\n<p>(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!<br \/>\nYou arr a pirate.<br \/>\nHeh heh heh heh heh heh.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lazytownpoint.com\/PontacCom10.html?i=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to writer Ken Pontac<\/a>, the final stanza is <b>supposed<\/b> to begin \"Yar har, <b>yo ho ho ho<\/b>, 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #81\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-81\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #81<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"You can only post this today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/02\/you-can-only-post-this-today\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can only post this today<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Minimate Mini-Review #397 - The Undead Cartographer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/minimate-mini-review-397-the-undead-cartographer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Minimate Mini-Review #397 - The Undead Cartographer<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #105\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/08\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-105\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #105<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Flippin' through Previews - October '11\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/flippin-through-previews-october-11\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Flippin' through Previews - October '11<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this song isn't running through your head constantly while playing with the Plunderlings, we don't know what to tell you. &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;A tour of Toys R Us in 1991 Vitruvian HACKS dig up some skeletons Rustin's &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/you-are-a-pirate-by-fred-perry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,42],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-33436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-videos","tag-pirates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41219,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33436\/revisions\/41219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}