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Whydah
03:46
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WHYDAH
©Corrie Shelley
The captain said jump aboard I’ll make a man of thee
You’ll earn more money on this ship than you have ever seen,
So leave your family at home and sail the seven seas
Aboard the Whydah sailing over to the colonies
It wasn’t long after we left that we all realized
The ship that we had jumped aboard would take away our lives
If the hardwork and foul food didn’t kill you first
It was the salty water from the sea you drank to quench your thirst
Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away
For 40 days and 40 nights We sailed the treacherous seas
We manned the oars, and scrubbed the decks and prayed for liberty
We climbed the rigging to the top for land we wished to see
But a pirate ship on the starboard side our vessel they did seize
Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away,
His name was Black Sam Bellamy and with his motley crew
We raided other vessels oh they didn’t have a clue
We plundered all their treasure and stored it in the hold
50 ships were struck that year or so the story’s told
hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away,
We headed north up to Cape Cod Year 1717
Old Bellamy thought he was God who owned these treacherous seas
On April the 26th a storm it hit us hard
The ship it sank into the sand only two of us survived
Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away,
They found me lying on the beach surrounded by the dead
John Julian had vanished he’d grabbed his loot and fled
They hauled me up to Boston and questioned me till dawn
About all the gold and silver and the treasures we had stole
Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away,
Thomas Davis is my given name and I was born in Wales
My heart it lies upon that ship and wherever she may sail
So when you hang me by the noose my cry will ring clear
I’m a Pirate, that I be Hoist OY, and Hoist Away
Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away, Hoist oy, hoist away,
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Sir William and the Father
© Corrie Shelley
In sixteen forty three they came riding o’er the fens
For to find a young fair maiden
These 20 noble men
Astride their jet black stallions
With reins of crimson red
Every village that they passed through
Well they took one to their bed
Sir William, he sat up proud surveying all around
He spied a young fair maiden
Seated on the ground
He said “come over here my girl
And let me take a look”
But her father in-between he got
And away his daughter took
Sir William said eagerly, “I’ll take her off your hands
And I will pay most handsomely
With silver, gold and land
For one who has such beauty
Is a sight to behold”
But her father he said “no my lord
I shall not see her sold”
“Go hide my child” her father said
“For I’ll not see thee wed
To one who is so brazen
With his tunic of fine thread
If he wishes for to take you
Away as his new bride
He must court thee for 3 long years
Before you’ll leave my side”
So Alice, rose, shook out her hair, Glowing raven in the sun
And she took flight across the glen
As fast as she could run
She hid amongst the old oak roots
Surrounded by the thorns
No-one would ever find her there
Safe, until the night would fall
Sir William amused was he agreed to all the terms
He sent away his fellow men
3 years they must return
For then a wedding there would be
Where he’d make this girl his wife
No more she’d run away from him
She would love him all his life
Her father, losing her he feared
In turmoil and in hell
The old wise woman he did ask
To conjure up a spell
“Her beauty would increase each day
To tempt this noble knight
But if she were to leave this town
She would age within the night”
Each day he rode the many miles, to the one who’d stole his heart
No more an hour he’d spend with her
Before they’d have to part
And as the seasons dawned a new
His raven headed girl
Her beauty was beyond compare
Her hair her crowning jewel
Her father said “you’ve proved your worth
You’ve courted 3 long years
I do believe you are the one
You’ve allayed all my fears
So take my daughter as your wife
And be true to her alone”
Sir William and Alice, with his blessing
They rode home
Now Her father had forgotten, the curse that she possessed
Sir William and Alice had
But one nights wedded bliss
And as the dawn was breaking
She aged before his eyes
But Sir William he cared not
For he loved his one true bride
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The Pattern
04:12
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The Pattern
©Corrie Shelley
There's a pattern on the table that tells of times gone by
of wedding bells and happy times, and love lights in her eyes
I can see her face so clearly, as though she's sat with me
I can reach across and wipe away that single falling tear
I think of all the dreams she had, of how her life would be
the house the kids the picket fence, and holidays by the sea
but this pattern lies untouched, never cut and never made
never worn by the blushing bride, on her wedding day
Her bouquet is replaced now with a telegram that says
her man he died a hero on the shores of Normandy
this war it changed so many things leaving broken hearts behind
the men they fell on battlefields, no safe place left to hide
It changed our cities and our towns and the way we live our lives
but this pattern and the memories remind us of those times
There's a pattern on the table that tells of times gone by
of wedding bells and happy times, and love lights in her eyes
I can see her face so clearly, as though she's sat with me
I can reach across and wipe away that single falling tear
I can see her face so clearly, as though she's sat with me
I can reach across and wipe away that single falling tear
I can reach across and wipe away that single falling tear
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Love is Blind
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Love Is Blind
©Corrie Shelley
I need you more than ever, now that you are gone
and now and then your image haunts my memory
you'll never know how much I loved you if only you could see
but then you never wanted me
Days pass and nights fly and I wonder why
you ever meant so much to me
I could never find the words to show my true feelings
but then you'd never understand
days go by and people change, but you just stay the same
you're all I want in life
Days pass and nights fly and I wonder why
you ever meant so much to me
Don't keep me hanging on to nothing
they always say that Love is Blind
I trusted everything you ever said
but look what love has done to me
Days pass and nights fly and I wonder why
you ever meant so much to me
Don't keep me hanging on to nothing
they always say that Love is Blind
I trusted everything you ever said
but look what love has done to me
but look what love has done to me
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Jonny
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Jonny
©Corrie Shelley
Are you going underground today, Jonny Jonny
Will you help to move the coal today, Jonny Jonny
Coz the foreman's coming round today, so do your work and you'll get paid
Are you going underground today, Jonny Jonny
Well you know the men you're working with, Jonny Jonny
Coz your Da' and brothers are on your shift, Jonny Jonny
So just do as they tell you to, open the doors let the coal trucks through
Are you going underground today, Jonny Jonny
Well I know it's dark deep in that hole, Jonny Jonny
and you'll come home as black as coal, Jonny Jonny
but the landlord said he'll take away, our rooms if the rent we do not pay
So you're going underground today, Jonny Jonny
It was your first day underground today, Jonny Jonny
and now I'll never see you play, Jonny Jonny
coz the mine it took you all away, husband and sons all in one day
why did I make you go today, Jonny Jonny
I should've sent you off to school, Jonny Jonny
where you could learn and play the fool, Jonny Jonny
coz you'll never have your tenth birthday, and never again see the light of day
coz we buried you underground today, Jonny Jonny
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Sweet Revenge
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Sweet Revenge
© Corrie Shelley
This will be the last day
That I suffer at your hands
And all the words I’m hearing
I no longer understand
The pain and hurt you caused me
It will soon be in the past
The day of reckoning comes closer
And I’m gonna make it last
Coz I will suffocate you
I will bring you to your knees
I will make you suffer
I will sit and watch you bleed
For all the pain you caused me
This will be my sweet revenge
You will never stop me
I will stick it to the end
I will not bend, I will not break
My dignity You will not take
I will fight, I will stand strong
And I will right all of your wrongs
Coz I will suffocate you
I will bring you to your knees
I will make you suffer
I will sit and watch you bleed
For all the pain you caused me
This will be my sweet revenge
You will never stop me
I will stick it to the end
This will be the first day
That I build my life anew
And all the words I’m hearing
Hit my ears like morning dew
The pain and suffering is gone
It’s just a distant memory
I am happy I’m alive
That’s because I am now free
Coz I will suffocate you
I will bring you to your knees
I will make you suffer
I will sit and watch you bleed
For all the pain you caused me
This will be my sweet revenge
You will never stop me
I will stick it to the end
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Memories
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Memories
© Corrie Shelley
I remember walking down your street
many years ago
and I’d often take a sneaky peek
up at your window
to see if you were standing there
looking back at me
But the only thing I’d ever see
were your arms around Wendy
You married her, I moved away
to Newcastle Upon Tyne
I married Jack, we had three kids
I had his heart, but you had mine
I often used to think of you
and if you thought of me
standing there outside your house
for all the world to see
Now forty years have passed us by
and time has not been kind
the kids have all flown the nest
I lost my Jack to the mine
You lost your wife , I moved back home
to our town in Lancashire
and I’d love to see your face again
after all these years
But the past, well it changes us
nothings as it seems
but time, can’t erase the love
I feel in my dreams
Well I thought I’d give it one last shot
to see if it is real
and I know mi kids will call me soft
after all these years
but when you walk into the room
I know where I should be
leaving you inside my head
as just a memory
but the past, well it changes us
nothings as it seems,
but time can’t erase the love
I feel in my dreams
but the past, well it changes us
nothings as it seems,
but time can’t erase the love
I feel in my dreams
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Wild Wind
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Wild Wind
©Corrie Shelley
Oh the Wild Wild Wind will carry me home
back to where it all began
and I'll meet my love under the branches of the tree
at the setting of the evening sun
Wild wind won't you carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind won't you carry me, back to my lovers arms again
Oh I left my love to find fortune and fame
5 long years I have been gone
but the one true thing that brought joy to my life
was the one thing that I'd left back home
Wild wind won't you carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind won't you carry me, So I can be in my lovers arms again
Wild wind won't you carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind won't you carry me, So I can be in my lovers arms again
As I stand waiting under the branches of the tree
my heart it cries out to the moon
for my one true love has caught the wind beneath his wings
and he's flown away to follow his dreams
Wild wind you did not carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind you did not carry me, back to my lovers arms again
Now my heart if pines for my true love whom I've lost
Whilst I chased my selfish dreams
And the Wild Wild wind blows across this empty plain
and brings back those memories
Wild wind you did not carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind you did not carry me, back to my lovers arms again
So take heed and remember that my dreams could've been made
with the one sitting with me
so you must take care of the ones you hold so dear
or your dreams will float away on the breeze
Wild wind you could not carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind you could not carry me, for my lovers arms won't hold me again
Wild wind you could not carry me, back to where it all began
Wild wind you could not carry me, for my lovers arms won't hold me again
Ooh Wild Wind, Ooh Wild Wind, Ooh Wild Wind, now my lovers arms won't hold me again
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Storm Coming
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Pale Maiden II
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Based on a poem written by Steve Butterworth, a Royal Navy Veteran who served as a medic in the Falklands war. After a visit back to the islands some years later he noticed the national flower growing on the battlefields and the smell of the blossom.
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Corrie Shelley Lancashire, UK
Corrie Shelley is a Folk Singer Songwriter from Lancashire UK.
Corrie writes from the heart and
doesn't shy away from any subject matter, every song has a personal meaning to them and her voice transports you through the ages right up to the present day.
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