Pirates, What Would You Like To Be? Poem by Della Perry

I would like to be a pirate
and sail the seven seas,
Be dirty and filthy
and do as I please,
Curse and shout
and make a din.
Plot and scheme
Drink lots of gin!
Use our ship to ambush and trap
Jolly Roger flying! ATTACK, ATTACK!
I'd have a tattoo, a ring in my nose,
I'd strut about, swagger and put on a pose.
I wouldn't have a parrot, but a big, black crow,
To scare the other pirates that I know!
I'd chant and sing a cool pirate song,
What do yer mean, I'd be doin' wrong?
So what, I would be a soulless dog
So watch yer back in that thick fog!
A pirate's life is the life for me,
But I might just wait 'til I'm older than three!