The Spongebob Squarepants Musical - Poor Pirates

	  		
Intro: Gm  Bb  Eb  D 


Verse 
Gm                  Bb 
Let me begin with a hearty ho ho 
      Eb                     Bb 
And a tale that nobody tells well 
         Gm                       Bb 
I've not come all the way from En-C-I-N-O 
      Eb                       D 
To be treated like sewage that smells 

   Eb                        Bb 
I'm certainly not that surprised 
         D                   F       Eb 
For this story is older than time 
   F                  F 
Me peglegged pirating brethren and I 
    F         F           F 
Are society's slug-ridden slime 


Verse 
Gm                         Bb 
We've all been cast out as scallywag rogues 
     Eb                         Bb 
With fire in our beards and our eyes 
          Gm                      Bb 
There's a side to us pirates that nobody knows 
         Eb                   D 
And it's soft as a baby's backside 

Eb                     Bb 
Some of us just want adventures 
    D                    F         Eb 
The open-sea wind in our earrings 
F                     F 
Why are we constantly misunderstood 
F              F            F 
Don't you know pirates have feelings 



     Eb             Bb 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     F              Gm 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     Eb            Bb               F 
Poor pirates can't deny this simple truth 
     Eb         Bb          D 
Poor pirates,   P - O - O - ARR 
       Gm            Gm 
People too     (too, too, too) 
       Gm            D       Gm 
        Nice harmonies, mateys! 



Verse 
Gm                          Bb 
Think of how harrrd we have had it (so hard) 
       Eb                         Bb 
Out on ships there is not much to eat (not much to eat) 
    Gm                      Bb 
And dentists hate pirate insurance (yo ho no) 
         Eb                     D 
Which is why we've so many gold teeth (We've too many gold teeth) 

   Eb                        Bb 
Me laundry stays damp and me boots start to stink 
       D                      F         Eb 
And me fingernails filthy and dirty 
   F                  F 
Me internet loads unbelievably slow 
       F         F        F 
And me bedtime's around 7:30 


     Eb             Bb 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     F              Gm 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     Eb            Bb               F 
Poor pirates can't deny this simple truth 
           Eb             Bb 
We're poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     F              Gm 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     Eb              Bb                 D 
Poor pirates have it so much worse than you 



Bridge 
          Eb                      Bb 
We've got pirate parades to which nobody comes 
        F                         Gm 
Captain Kidd hosts a marathon but nobody runs 
          Eb                  Bb 
Long John Silver invented the bloomin' onion 
        D 
But you think he gets credit for that? (NO!) 

Eb                      Bb 
Captain... um... no one knows his first name 
        F                           Gm 
And old Greenbeard's been driven completely insane 
       Eb                    Bb 
Hardly anyone celebrates our one holiday 
D 
  Arr... Talk Like a Pirate Day! 


           Eb             Bb 
We're poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     F              Gm 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     Eb            Bb               F 
Poor pirates can't deny this simple truth 
   (Can't deny that we're poor, poor ) 
Eb             Bb 
Pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     F              Gm 
Poor pirates, P-O-O-ARR 
     Eb              Bb             F 
Poor pirates can't deny this simple truth 
     Eb       Bb          D 
That pirates, P - O - O - ARR 
Gm                 D      Gm 
  People too                  Yo ho!