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 let our deaths be as swift and painless as you can conveniently make them.

I will. By the love I have for you, I swear it. Would that you could render this extermination unnecessary by accompanying me back to civilization!

No, Frederic, it cannot be. I don't think much of our profession, but, contrasted with respectability, it is comparatively honest. No, Frederic; I shall live and die a pirate king.

Oh better far to live and die Under the brave black flag I fly, Than play a sanctimonious part With a pirate head and a pirate heart. Away to the cheating world go you, Where pirates all are well-to-do; But I'll be true to the song I sing, And live and die a Pirate King!
 * For I am a Pirate King!

You are! Hurrah for the Pirate King!

And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King!

It is. Hurrah for our Pirate King!

When I sally forth to seek my prey I help myself in a royal way. I sink a few more ships, it's true. Than a well-bred monarch ought to do ; But many a king on a first-class throne, If he wants to call his crown his own, Must manage somehow to get through More dirty work than ever I do. Though I am a Pirate King!

You are! Hurrah for the Pirate King!

And it is, it is a glorious thing To be a Pirate King!

It is! Hurrah for our Pirate King!

(After Song, the , and all the Pirates, except  and  go off R. and R. U. E.  comes down C, followed by )

Oh take me with you! I cannot live if I am left behind.