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Old 07-16-2007, 03:42 PM   #44
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Originally posted by RM:
The question : what in the heck do these lyrics mean ?

"Now the pleasures of the harbor
Don't include a lady barber
If it wasn't for Long John Silver
All of us pirates would've been martyrs"
I hate to quote myself, but...I bounced the question off a couple of friends and here's what I have.

Now the pleasures of the harbor (the boat/woman is now being skippered by another, and the narrator is ashore)

Don't include a lady barber (??)

If it wasn't for Long John Silver (a fictional character who spawned the sterotypical image of a nefarious sailor with a peg-leg and a parrot perched upon his shoulder)

All of us pirates would've been martyrs (the rest of us scoundrels would be commiserated with)

Plausible ?
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