Nicholas Folwell Follow

PIRATES:
With cat like tread, upon our prey we steal,
In silence dread, our cautious way we feel,
No sound at all, we never speak a word,
A fly's foot fall would be distinctly heard.

POLICEMEN:
Tarantara! Tarantara!

PIRATES:
So stealthily the pirate creeps
While all the household soundly sleeps.

Come friends who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation,
Take another station,
Let's vary piracy,
With a little burglary.

Come friends who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation,
Take another station,
Let's vary piracy,
With a little burglary.

SAMUEL:
Here's your crowbar, and your centrebit,
Your life preserver, you may want to hit.
Your silent matches, your dark lantern seize,
Take your file and your skeletonic keys.

POLICEMEN:
Tarantara.

PIRATES:
With cat like tread.

POLICEMEN:
Tarantara.

PIRATES:
In silence dread.

With cat like tread, upon our prey we steal,
In silence dread, our cautious way we feel,
No sound at all, we never speak a word,
A fly's foot fall would be distinctly heard.

Come friends who plough the sea,
Truce to navigation,
Take another station,
Let's vary piracy,
With a little burglary.

With cat like tread, upon our prey we steal,
In silence dread, our cautious way we feel.