Patch-Eye And Meg Lyrics

                Michelle Shocked
              (Poly Gram Songs, Inc)


Remembering back when I was a kid, I'd slip down to the docks 
To watch the old men carving wood, watch the sailors tying knots 
But the thing I remember best was grey-haired old Patch-Eye
And the stories that he'd tell me 'bout his younger days
		as we watched those ships go by hfill 
He'd talk about his missing eye, he'd talk all about his wooden leg 
But he never talked about the old tattoo on his right arm that said ``Meg''

He said he was captain of a pirate ship sailing seas both blue and green 
Then he said that all pirate's got to have have a patch so as they 
		can look real mean 
He'd made the bad guys walk the plank, the pretty ladies he would save 
And then he'd take the treasure from the ship and then he'd sink it 
		to a watery grave 
He'd talk about his missing eye, he'd talk about his wooden leg 
But he'd never talk about the old tattoo of brown-haired, 
		blue-eyed Meg  

He told me a story 'bout his wooden leg as he sat there spinning yarns 
Once he lost it to a mamba snake, down in the Amazon 
Another time it was way out west in a gunfight, or so he said 
Oh but that's all right boy, man's got to legs, you know he could have 
		lost his head 
He told me all about his missing eye, he told me all about his wooden leg 
But he took the story to the grave about the tattoo 
		that said ``Meg''  

He told me how he lost his eye and how he lost leg 
But he never told me how he lost the love of brown-haired, 
		blue-eyed Meg