The Coast of High Barbary

Look ahead, look astern

Look the weather look-a-Lee

Blow high, blow low, and so sail we

I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to lee

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

Then hail her, o Captain, He called oer the side

Blow high, blow low! So sailed we

I are you a pirate or a man o war he cried

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

O, are you a pirate or man o war? Cried we

Blow high, blow low! And so sailed we

Oh no! I'm not a pirate, but a man o war, cried he

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

Then back up your topsails and heave your vessels to

Blow high, blow low! And so sailed we

For we have got some letters to be carried home by you

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

For broadside, for broadside they fought all on the main

Blow high, blow low! And so sailed we

Until at last the frigate shot the pirate's mast away

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

With cutlass and gun O we fought for hours three

Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we

The ship it was their coffin and their grave it was the sea

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

Look ahead, look astern

Look the weather look-a-lee

Blow high, blow low, and so sail we

I see a wreck to windward and a lofty ship to Lee

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary

A-sailing down along the coast of High Barbary