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He terrorized the eastern waters for three dreadful years His savagery is legendary, His name has lived on through the ages Born in the end of the 1600s, his given name was Edward One look at him would terrify, Black-Beard is what he became known as He made himself look hellish Framing his face in fire By placing long lighted matches Under his hat to strike fear in his prey He'd hide his ship and lay in waiting for some unsuspecting vessel He'd attack with such ferocity, No one ever acted so fiercely He carried three bracers of pistols, had lots of rum for all his men When things got slow he'd stir thing up, By shooting his guns in his dark cabin They say he had fourteen wives And a governor's refuge He came to shore quite often He even once took the King's pardon He raped and murdered the innocent He was the terror that sailed the sea Along the mid-Atlantic coast Black Beard brought horror and misery So many met with a watery grave So many ships fell by his hand SongtexteHis pure brutality knew no bounds The ocean's devil and his evil band He had taken such a toll upon the sea All the people cried for something to be done Then Virginias governor had had enough He sent his own ship to capture him dead or alive He raped and murdered the innocent He was the terror that sailed the sea Along the mid-Atlantic coast Black Beard brought horror and misery Then in the year 1718 On November twenty first Near the Ocracoke Inlet Twenty-five wounds ended his blood-thirst Aus Songtexte Mania