High Barbary

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These songs and stories for the festival season have been collected from four live recordings along the west coast and then the best takes were used to form the album.

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HIGH BARBARY
Traditional Arranged by Heather Alexander

Look ahead, look astern, look the weather and the lee,
BLOW HIGH, BLOW LOW, AND SO SAILED WE!
I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee,
ASAILIN' DOWN ALONG THE COAST OF HIGH BARBARY!

"Are you a privateer, or a man-o-war?" cried we,
"I am a lusty pirate ship come lookin' for my fee!"

For broadside, for broadside, we fought along the main,
Until at last the frigate shot the pirate's mast away-

With cutlass and gun, oh, we fought for hours three,
The ship, it was their coffin, and their grave, it was the sea-

"For quarter, for quarter!" the saucy pirates cried,
But the quarter that we showed them was to sink them in the tide!

And oh, twas a cruel sight, and grieved us full sore,
To see them all a-drownin' as they tried to swim ashore-

Sea Fire Productions Inc c&p 2003

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from Festival Wind, released March 1, 2003
Vocal & Guitar: Heather Alexander

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Alexander James Adams Redmond, Washington

A changling from the Land of Fae, Heather brings stories and songs from a world where magic never dies and anything can happen if you only believe.

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