Sing a Song of Six Pence
Jun 23, 2000 -
© Virginia Marin
Again refers to the fact the Blackbeard was willing and able to pay his crew in money.
A reference to his ship, the Queen Anne's Revenge and what a splendid ship on which to serve.
The maid was the ship in position to attack. She knew where the prize was. The garden referred to the waters around the Carolinas and the Caribbean where the Queen Anne's Revenge haunted. Hanging out the clothes signaled that the targeted ship was at sea or ready to leave port. Its sails were already hung in the breeze.
This is Blackbeard bragging over his prize, his spoils of encounter.
- Nursery rhymes. Fragments of folk songs. Remnants of ancient custom and ritual. Coded messages from pirates of the high seas. Today, they may just hold the last echoes of long-forgotten evils.
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