Name: Blood and Rum
Duration: P00H02M29S
Description: Pirates roam the coasts, searching for anything of value, singing this song.

Blood and Rum

from The Gasoline Coast by Nick Di Gaetano

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Pirates roam the coasts, searching for anything of value, singing this song.

lyrics

Holding tight there’s a devil in the night
Washing down their fright with a cold and rusty chain
Waterlogged with rain, skin rotting off again
From the cold and the wet and the whipping of the wind

Get down there boys, down there boys
No cracking, no squealing.
Get down there boys, down there boys
And tie those chains real tight.

Children of the setting sun
Give us blood or give us rum
Work by moonlight ‘til we’re done
Give us blood or give us rum
By the blade or by the barrel of the gun
Give us blood or give us rum
Give us blood or give us rum
Give us blood or rum

Hoist those sails to give us speed
We’ll beat the drums for the slaves below to heed
There’s a new scent on the seaborne breeze
We’ll follow it down, take what we need.

Keep us here until we die
These chains will rot and so will I
Load those ships for Shanghai
And sail the black waters to the ports no one can name

Trade in blood and trade in guts
Forbidden fruits, forbidden stuffs
They get what they want but it’s never enough
They cry out for blood or rum!

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from The Gasoline Coast, released February 21, 2014

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Nick Di Gaetano Smiths Falls, Ontario

Nick is a songwriter, actor/improviser, comedian and sound designer from Ottawa, ON. His musical work ranges from punk/hardcore to theatre/film scores to folky-synthy jams about science fiction.
He lives in Smiths Falls, ON with his beautiful wife, their two amazing sons and a cat named Poo Poo. ... more