High Barbary- Schallenburg (NM) 1951 Robb
[The two verses with confused text are well sung with a nice melody which you can hear online.
R. Matteson 2014]
HIGH BARBARY- Anna Maria Schallenburg, 1951Albuquerque New Mexico; Part of John Donald Robb Archive of Southwestern Music.
Audio: http://econtent.unm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/RobbFieldRe/id/7235/rec/1
Look, look ahead, look a-stern, look a-weather and a-lee,
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
I say, look a-windward upon lofty lee,
A-sailing down the coast of High Barbary.
"Are you a pirate [1] or are you a man-o'-war?
Blow high, blow low, and so sailed we
Oh I'm not a pirate but I'm a man-o'-war."
A-sailing down the coast of High Barbary.
1. usually-- privateer