Call It Treason - Never Let Them Take Your Voice | Pirate Shanty

There was a time when the whole harbor sang without asking who might be listening Then the doors started closing The jokes became quieter The songs became safer And somewhere along the way everyone learned to whisper Until one old fiddler played the song he was told to leave unnamed Call It Treason is a pirate shanty about a harbor that forgot how to raise its voice Some things are worth making noise for So raise your mug Raise your voice And if they tell you to whisper Sing louder 🏴‍☠️ Blackbeards Tavern Lyrics: I came back to the harbor Where the old black banners flew Where a man could curse the heavens And the whole room cursed them too Now the shutters close at sunset And the songs are kept polite Every joke dies in a whisper Every table sits upright There are notices on doorways Telling grown men how to live Half the town asks for permission Just to take what life will give I slammed my fist against the bar What happened to this place The keeper poured another And said they taught us all our place Call it treason Call it a sin Kick down the doors We are walking back in Ring every bell Let the crown hear the sound The streets that went silent Are shaking the ground Keep your decrees Your warnings Your shame We will spit on the seal And forget the kings name You wanted a world That knew how to behave Now watch what you buried Come out of its grave I found the old blind fiddler In the corner by the flame He whispered half my verses now Are better left unnamed I said play the one they hate then And I threw him down a crown He laughed Drew up his fiddle And the first note shook the town A chair scraped back A mug went up Somebody howled at the moon Then every buried voice in there Came crashing through the tune The keeper locked the windows As the whole damned room joined in And every rule they rammed down throats Was drowned beneath the din Call it treason Call it a sin Kick down the doors We are walking back in Ring every bell Let the crown hear the sound The streets that went silent Are shaking the ground Keep your decrees Your warnings Your shame We will spit on the seal And forget the kings name You wanted a world That knew how to behave Now watch what you buried Come out of its grave By dawn the Crown guard filled the street And hammered at the door They ordered us to kill the song The fiddler played it more They waved their writs above the crowd And called our laughter sin We ripped them down And fed the flames Then raised the song again No man needs leave To laugh out loud No seal commands his tongue No clerk alive decides Which songs are fit to still be sung If silence is the price of peace Then peace can go to hell We would rather wake the whole damned world Than learn to whisper well Call it treason Call it a sin Kick down the doors We are walking back in Ring every bell Let the crown hear the sound The streets that went silent Are shaking the ground Keep your decrees Your warnings Your shame We will spit on the seal And forget the kings name You wanted a world That knew how to behave Now watch what you buried Come out of its grave #PirateShanty #SeaShanty #PirateMusic #BlackbeardsTavern #tavernmusic