Ballad of Patch Eye and Meg

Michelle Shocked

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Remembering back when I was a kid
I'd sneak down to the docks
Watch the old men carving wood and the sailors tying knots
But the thing that I remember best was grey haired old Patch Eye
And the stories that he'd tell me about his younger days
As we watched the ships go by

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He'd talk about his missing eye
He'd talk about his wooden leg
But he'd never talk about the old tattoo
On his right arm that said 'Meg'

He said he was captain of a pirate ship
Sailing seas both blue and green
He said all pirates got to have a patch so's they can look real mean
He'd make the bad guys walk the plank
The pretty ladies he would save
He'd take the treasure from those ships
Then send 'em to a watery grave

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He'd talk about his missing eye
He'd talk about his wooden leg
But he'd never talk about the old tattoo
On his right arm that said 'Meg'

He told me how he lost his leg
As he sat there carving ships
Once he lost it down in Africa
to a lion's hungry grip
Another time it was way out west
In a gunfight or so he said
Aw, but that's alright, a man's got two legs
Hell, he could have lost his head

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He told me how he lost his
And how he lost his leg
But he never told me how he lost the love of
Brown haired blue eyed Meg

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