Hoist The Colors Lyrics

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Remember the movie you saw last year that didn't have an ending? Yeah, that one. Well it turns out the last 10 minutes of Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest has been extended into 2.5 more hours of movie time complete with a song and dance number, Hoist The Colors (the highlight of any Disney film, next to kids getting hanged).

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:

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 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.

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)

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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.

Anonymous said...

Wow. Congratulations. Your writing is extremely comical. I have truly enjoyed reading this.

Anonymous said...

the devil to pay .. it's talking about day jones ;)

Anonymous said...

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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Anonymous said...

thieves and beggars.....ya mean me?

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

look its me again ya no the song writing person.....ive got it stuck in my head.

Anonymous said...

What does "bound her in her bones" mean though? Did they r*p* the queen??? Please someone answer this cuz idk

 

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