Cast off ye cutthroats at the break of the day
Hoist up the mainsail, we'll get under way
Man all the cannons, stand fast at the wheel

Ready your charges and sharpen your steel

We're salty and swarthy, a murderous lot

We're born to the sea where we'll live die and rot
But history will tell of the foul deeds we've done
Of great masted ships and sea battles we've won


And they'll all turn tail and flee
From the terror of the seven seas


The English and Spanish, they want us all dead
They placed a fat bounty on every man's head

We'll target their merchants, replenish our stores
Then send them back home to bring us some more


We'll sail right upon them like ghosts in the night
And some of them might even try for a fight
But it's pirates they fear and pirates we be

And we'll send them that fight to the depths of the sea

And they'll all turn tail and flee

From the terror of the seven seas

Armadas can't save 'em, we know the sea well

With cannons ablaze we're a vision from hell
With cutlass and pistol we'll storm o'er the rails
And hang all the dead from the masts and the sails


We'll plunder their riches and free all their slaves
We'll send most the crew to a watery grave

But we'll leave some alive as a warning decree
Against running afoul of the terror at sea


And they'll all turn tail and flee
From the terror of the seven seas


And they'll all turn tail and flee
From the terror of the seven seas