The title of the song is Hoist The Colors or Hoist The Colours, depending on which superpower raped your country and colonized it a couple of hundred years ago. Here's the most complete lyrics to date:
The additional lyrics of Hoist The Colors not found in the first part of the movie appears sung by Elizabeth Swann while boating in Singapore. Also, it seems a lot of people have misunderstood the term "the devil to pay" in both the film and in general use.Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colours high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we’ll roam.Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colours high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage…
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler’s Green!The bell has been raised
from it’s watery grave…
Do you hear it’s sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the Colours high…
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.
The devil to pay is a nautical term, or rather a term for a punishment. The devil is the section of a wood ship where the deck (surface) joins the hull (the thing that keeps you from sleeping with the fishes). It's said that this is a very hard place to reach and "paying" it, or waterproofing using tar was therefore dreadful enough to be considered as punishment.
So now you know. Knowing is half the battle, YO JOE!
(p.s. the latter half is making your enemy bleed and die)
9 comments:
I like your entry - especially the nod to colonization, so true, and the hanging of children in a Disney movie. That's sure not the Disney I grew up with, ha! But still a fan of the films, and would argue the third one leaves us without a complete ending as well.
Devil to pay is more like a trouble to be faced as a result of an action rather than a punishment, but of course it can be regarded also as a punishment for a punishment is in itself no doubt a trouble, but not all troubles are punishments. And I do not think that the phrase has anything to do with a ship but rahter have the meaning of the words that comprises it as they are, that is, when there is devil to pay it means that one will give account to the devil, which certainly is a huge trouble.
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the devil to pay .. it's talking about day jones ;)
I wish not agree on it. I over warm-hearted post. Especially the title-deed attracted me to study the whole story.
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thieves and beggars.....ya mean me?
i made my own song.....im a loser and so are you just dont tell my mum. peace to all and bad smelling feet i hope to lose then soon!! mine smell worse said the man in the cap. and then he went of to poo.poo smells bad said a girl walking by and then she went pewyo....the end happy holidays...wate its not holidays yet!! bye
look its me again ya no the song writing person.....ive got it stuck in my head.
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