History Main / PirateSong

* Subverted by ''Series/KeyAndPeele'', providing the page image. In the "Feminist Pirate Chanty" sketch, a group of rowdy pirates sing a bawdy drinking song about informed consent, providing foreplay, being pro-choice, and recognizing that women can hold traditionally male jobs. It appears [[PirateGirl the Captain]] shoots anyone who sings disrespectful shanties.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'': After being absent [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII in the last time]] ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' appeared in the franchise, "Yo Ho" is sung at the opening cutscene of The Caribbean]] world, with its lyrics reworded to serve as an abridged recap for ''Dead Man's Chest'', which is skipped over for adapting ''At World's End''. Also, [[Bowdlerise it changes "Drink up" to "look out"]], largely to avoid alcohol references that would raise the game's rating, but likewise turns the song into a warning to all who hear it about the looming threat.

* Binks' Sake in ''{{Anime/OnePiece}}''

* ''Disney/PeterPan'' has Captain Hook's crew sing "A Pirate's Life", about how they love living as freebooters and criminals.

* Subverted by ''Series/KeyAndPeele'', providing the page image. In the "Feminist Pirate Chanty" sketch, a group of rowdy pirates sing a bawdy drinking song about informed consent, providing foreplay, and recognizing that women can hold traditionally male jobs. It appears [[PirateGirl the Captain]] shoots anyone who sings disrespectful shanties.

* Subverted by ''Series/KeyAndPeele'', providing the page image. In the "Feminist Pirate Shanty" sketch, a group of rowdy pirates sing a bawdy drinking song about informed consent, providing foreplay, and recognizing that women can hold traditionally male jobs. It appears [[PirateGirl the Captain]] shoots anyone who sings disrespectful shanties.

* Subverted by KeyAndPeele. In the "Feminist Pirate Shanty" sketch, a group of rowdy pirates sing a bawdy drinking song about informed consent, providing foreplay, and recognizing that women can hold traditionally male jobs. It appears [[PirateGirl the Captain]] shoots anyone who sings disrespectful shanties.

* Long John Silver's VillainSong from ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrj8EZm9ca8 Professional Pirate]]", where he explains a pirate's life to Jim Hawkins.

Songs sung by vikings can count too, as long as the songs are about pillaging. After all, both pirates and vikings are seafaring marauders.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': [[RoguesGalleryTransplant Don Karnage]] and his SkyPirate crew sing one while pillaging Scrooge's plane. The song serves as a distraction, as Scrooge and his family are too confused to fight back.

{{Pirate}}s can be a jolly bunch, when they're not plundering and pillaging. It's fairly common in fiction for pirates to sing songs while on their ship, in a tavern, or someplace else, often with lyrics about how they enjoy being swashbucklers.

Often overlaps with IAmSong and VillainSong. See GhostSong for more amoral beings singing about what they do best (considering the prevalence of {{Ghost Pirate}}s in fiction, there may be overlap between this trope and GhostSong as well, somewhere...)

{{Pirate}}s can be a jolly bunch, when they're not plundering and pillaging. It's fairly common in fiction to have pirates sing songs while they sail, or often with lyrics about how they enjoy being swashbucklers.

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': In ''Triss'', Captain Plugg Firetail's crew sings three songs, which the audiobook gives shanty-like tunes to: "[[https://youtu.be/kwuLz4fZMmo The Freeboter's Way]]", "[[https://youtu.be/MHZ9rhCXvfA Dirty Desperate Crew]]", and "[[https://youtu.be/Uo1X9TYuH0Y Freebooters' Song]]", about how they enjoy being marauders.

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-->-- ''Disney/PeterPan'', "A Pirate's Life"

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': In ''Triss'', Captain Plugg Firetail's crew sings three songs, "That's The Freebootin' Way", "'Tis Nice To Be A Villain" and "Plunder, By Thunder", about how they enjoy being marauders.

* ''Disney/PeterPan'' has Captain Hook's crew sing "A Pirate's Life for Me", about how they love living as freebooters and criminals.

-->We come from the land of the ice and snow,
From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow.
How soft your fields so green. Can whisper tales of gore.
Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords.
Always sweep with threshing oar,
Our only goal will be the western shore.
So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Fatbeard" has Cartman trying to regiment a gang of [[RuthlessModernPirates modern day Somalian pirates]] into cliche treasure hunting rogues through a MontageSong shanty. It works.