A Pirate’s Confession Marc Gunn

The world is full of wondrous things
Pirates in airships and dragons a-wing
Don’t you forget, as you travel tonight –
The world needs some fancy to keep spinning right

When I took up my harp, as a lad of thirteen
I wanted to tell of the marvels I’d seen –
The clouds from above, like a pearly white sea…
The earth down below, like a map we could read

It took me some time to get over my shock
Of seeing the ship coming into the dock…
No water in sight, like you might expect
Just a rope that we tied to a spar on the deck

The first time I looked through the glass to the lea
And saw there a dragon flying careless and free
I felt my heart soaring on wings made of joy
And I felt happier then than I had since a boy

I admit to you now that I became quite a cad…
I undermined every hunt that we had
I made sure that every harpoon would miss
And we ne’er took a prize from that day to this

The world is full of wondrous things
Pirates in airships and dragons a-wing
Don’t you forget, as you travel tonight –
The world needs some fancy to keep spinning right